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. He was a finalist in Narrative’s Fall 2008 Story Contest, and his story “Fatherland” won Third Place in the Winter 2011 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.