Bich Minh Nguyen

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Bich Minh "Beth" Nguyen (born 1974 Saigon) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is the author of the novels Short Girls, which won a 2010 American Book Award, and Pioneer Girl, and a memoir, Stealing Buddha's Dinner.

Life[]

Bich Minh Nguyen was born in 1974 in Saigon, which her family fled by ship the following year. After staying in refugee camps in Guam and at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, they settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Nguyen grew up.[2] She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Fine Arts and is married to novelist Porter Shreve. They have two children. In 2005, she received a PEN/Jerard Award.[3] She taught at Purdue University and the University of San Francisco, and is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches fiction and creative non-fiction writing.[4]

Works[]

  • Pioneer Girl: a novel. Penguin. 2014. ISBN 978-0-698-15137-6.
  • Short Girls: a novel. Penguin. 2009. ISBN 978-0-670-02081-2.
  • Stealing Buddha's Dinner. Penguin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-14-311303-4.

Anthologies[]

  • Reinder Van Til; Gordon L. Olson, eds. (2007). "The Good Immigrant Student". Thin ice: coming of age in Grand Rapids. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-2478-3.
  • Alice Peck, ed. (2008). "The Plum's Eye". Bread, Body, Spirit: Finding the Sacred in Food. SkyLight Paths Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59473-242-3.
  • Lorraine López, ed. (2009). An angle of vision. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05078-9.

Reviews[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau: Award-Winning Authors + Writers".
  2. ^ "Bich Minh Nguyen".
  3. ^ "PEN/Jerard Fund Award Winners". PEN America. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Nguyen, Beth (Bich Minh)". English. Retrieved 2020-05-21.

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