Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Born and raised in Việt Nam, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the author of the international bestseller THE MOUNTAINS SING, runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Best Debut Award, the 2021 International Book Awards, the 2021 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2020 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Fiction. She has published twelve books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Vietnamese and English and has received some of the top literary prizes in Việt Nam including the Poetry of the Year 2010 from the Hà Nội Writers Association. Her writing has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in major publications including the New York Times. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her new novel, Dust Child, has been selected as a best book of 2023 by Reader's Digest and Cosmopolitan, a best Book of March/Spring 2023 by the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, Library Journal, the Chicago Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, BookPage, Apple Books, The Times, RED Magazine, the Buzz Magazines, and Sydney Morning Herald. It has also been voted by booksellers around the U.S. as an Indie Next Great Read. Quế Mai is a tireless advocate for the rights of disadvantaged groups in Việt Nam. She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of 20 inspiring women of 2021. For more information, visit: http://www.nguyenphanquemai.com