Bio

Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her) is the winner of the 2024 Readers' Choice Award for Best Adult Novel (Bronze) for her fiction debut, The 23rd Hero, and recipient of the 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award for Where War Ends (with Tom Voss). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, and Slackjaw, among others. Rebecca's stage play, Hypotheticals, was the 2023 winner of the Epiphanies New Works festival at Wild Imaginings Theatre Company and received its world premiere at Kith & Kin Theatre in Milwaukee in 2024. Rebecca studied fiction with Susan Choi and Hannah Tinti at the Sirenland Writers Workshop in Positano, Italy. She lives in Milwaukee with her 2 sons, 1 cat, and an infinite collection of Legos.