Phong Nguyen is the author of a novel, The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016, winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award), and two short story collections: Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (Mastodon Publishing, 2019) and Memory Sickness and Other Stories (Elixir Press, 2011, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award). He coedited the volume Nancy Hale: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master (Pleiades/LSU Press) with Dan Chaon and Norah Lind. Individual stories by Nguyen have appeared in more than 50 national literary journals in print and online, including Agni, Boulevard, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, New Letters, River Styx, and Kenyon Review Online. He is the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he lives with his wife—the artist Sarah Nguyen—and their three children.