Biography

Phong Nguyen is the author of six books, including the forthcoming novel The Three Daughters of Annam (to be released on Dec. 8, 2026). His most recent novel, Bronze Drum, was named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year for 2022, a Book of the Month Club selection for August 2022, and was featured or favorably reviewed in The New York Times, Washington Post, St Louis Post-Dispatch, NPR, and many more newspapers and magazines. His other books include Roundabout, part of the Missouri Authors Series; Adventures of Joe Harper, winner of the Prairie Heritage Award; Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History; and Memory Sickness and Other Stories, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. Phong teaches the Unbound Seminar and advises scholarship students in the Mizzou Honors College.