Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. His story “Fatherland” won third place in Narrative’s 2011 Winter Story Contest. Nguyen’s fiction has been anthologized in Best New American Voices 2007 and in A Stranger among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection.