VINH NGUYEN is a writer and educator. His writing appears in Brick, LitHub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, Ricepaper, The Criterion Collection, and MUBI Notebook. He is a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is also a staff writer at the Hamilton Review of Books.
Vinh is the author and co-editor of three academic books: Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, and Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. He is a co-founding member of the Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Network Canada and co-edits passages, a book series for Wilfrid Laurier University PrVINH NGUYEN is a writer and educator. His writing appears in Brick, LitHub, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, Ricepaper, The Criterion Collection, and MUBI Notebook. He is a non-fiction editor at The New Quarterly, where he curates an ongoing series on refugee, migrant, and diasporic writing. He is also a staff writer at the Hamilton Review of Books.
Vinh is the author and co-editor of three academic books: Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, and Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience. He is a co-founding member of the Critical Refugee + Migration Studies Network Canada and co-edits passages, a book series for Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
He served as a cultural consultant for the hit CBC comedy Run the Burbs and as a historical consultant on the “Vietnamese Boat People, 1979-1981” Heritage Minute. His writing has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and has received the John C. Polanyi Prize for Literature. In 2022, he was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Non-fiction 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....more