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 (Oxford University Press, 2002). He is also a former Fiction Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His fiction has been anthologized in Best New American Voices 2007 and in A Stranger among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection.