Nancy Nguyen grew up in Orange County, California and currently resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she is earning her PhD in English and Creative Writing. She was a 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow and a 2021 Susanna McCorkle Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in Pigeonholes, the Jellyfish Review, swamp pink, and elsewhere. Nancy is at work on a novel and collection about women, magic, bodies, and war.