Uyên Nguyễn
UYÊN NGUYỄN is a historian of modern Vietnam, with a strong interest in modern Vietnamese literature. She holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently Lecturer in the College of Humanities and Sciences and Department of History, National University of Singapore. Uyên’s current research project examines the communist takeovers of previously French-controlled cities in North Vietnam and the political and socio-cultural transformations that took place during the first four years after Ho Chi Minh’s government gained total control of the North (1954–1958).
Khải Q. Nguyễn
KHẢI Q. NGUYỄN writes, translates, and paints.
Nguyễn Bình
NGUYỄN BÌNH is a writer native to Hanoi, Vietnam. Born into a family of historians and anti-colonial revolutionaries, Bình grew up with a belief in literature as an art that depicts and confronts the conditions of society. Their literary works aim to connect ancient traditions and canons in order to motivate a look into what it is like to be human in the modern world. Bình is the author of essays and poems in both Vietnamese and English, many of which have been published in magazines and anthologies in Vietnam and the United States. Currently, Bình is writing a novel, and completing the first Vietnamese translation of Vergil’s Aeneid. They graduated from the University of Arizona in May 2023 with a BSc in Astronomy and BA in Linguistics, and are currently a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of Washington.
Nguyễn An Lý
NGUYỄN AN LÝ lives in Hồ Chí Minh City. Her translations into Vietnamese include works by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, J. L. Borges, Amos Oz, and the poetry in The Lord of the Rings. She won English PEN Translates Awards for Chinatown (Tilted Axis Press, 2022) and Elevator in Sài Gòn (Tilted Axis Press, 2024) by Thuận, and Water: A Chronicle (Major Books, 2024) by Nguyễn Ngọc Tư. Chinatown also won the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose and was the runner-up of the 2023 TA First Translation Prize. She co-founded and co–edits the independent online Zzz Review.
Ren N. Dinh (Mai)
REN N. DINH (MAI) is a non-binary writer of both academic and creative texts. They graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor’s in English Literature, and Hanoi National University of Education with a Master’s in Literary Theory. Their research focuses on queer theory and queer Vietnamese and Asian American literature, tapping into the intellectual excitement and critical empathy that a queer Asian diaspora can enable and liberate.
