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Ruth Nguyen

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Born

in The United States

Website

https://ruthnguyen.com/

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Horror, Fiction, Fantasy

Influences

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Alix E. Harrow, Viet Thanh Nguyen, ...more

Member Since

August 2026

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My name, Ruth, comes from the immigrant woman from the Bible who wound up in Jesus’s family tree. Which feels apropos for a proud second-gen Vietnamese-American writing about marginalized, misfit women finding healing, liberation, and love in impossible situations. (Thanks for the foresight, Mom and Dad.) To make those situations really impossible, my books are usually set in spooky old mansions or misty wildernesses. Because the best fairytale endings aren’t inevitable—they’re won with blood and tears.

When I’m not contemplating new ways to haunt a house, I can usually be found singing opera, knitting my umpteenth sweater, or trying to teach my dogs to talk. They’ll figure it out someday. I believe in them.

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Ruth Nguyen answered Payton Chamberlain's question: I was on the 'Next CS Lewis' rising young writers panel and you mentioned you were homeschooled. The way you described it sounded like a Charlotte Mason method (I am being homeschooled in a Charlotte Mason path) Is this true? It makes me feel seen that there's a published authour that was brought up the way I was. Hi, Payton! I'm so glad you enjoyed the panel. I wasn't educated with the Charlotte Mason method specifically, but there were definitely aspects of that approach that my parents drew on! (Particularly the big emphasis on reading broadly, lots of disc See Full Answer
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