Yasmina Din Madden

Yasmina Din Madden is a Vietnamese American writer based in Iowa. Her debut story collection, You Know Nothing, was published by Northwestern University Press in February 2026 and named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by the Chicago Review of Books. Her fiction and essays have appeared in venues including The Fairy Tale Review, Electric Literature, and The Idaho Review. She won the 2022 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. Her essay "Rewind" appeared in 100 Word Story in March 2025. The organization's cofounder, Grant Faulkner, was in conversation with her at a September 2026 Iowa City event.