Vinh Nguyen

Vinh Nguyen is a writer and educator. His writing appears in publications including Brick, LitHub, and The Malahat Review. Nguyen is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and a staff writer at the Hamilton Review of Books. He is the author and co-editor of three academic books, a co-founding member of the Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Network Canada, and co-edits passages, a book series for Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Nguyen’s writing has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and has received the John C. Polanyi Prize for Literature. In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. In 2024, he was a writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen now lives in Toronto.