Vinh Nguyen

VINH NGUYEN is a writer and educator. His writing has appeared in Brick, LitHub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, Ricepaper, The Criterion Collection, and MUBI Notebook. He is a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing.

Vinh’s memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and the Toronto Book Awards. It was named a best book of 2025 by NPR, CBC Books, The Hill Times, The Grind, and The Soapberry Review.

He is the author of the academic book Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience, which won Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and the Shelly Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies from the American Studies Association. He is also co-editor of two academic volumes: Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada and The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives.

In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction for emerging LGBTQ writers. In 2024, he was a writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. Vinh was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and lives in Toronto, Canada.