Bich Minh "Beth" Nguyen (born 1974) is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the novels ''Short Girls'', which won a 2010 American Book Award, and ''Pioneer Girl'', and a memoir, ''Stealing Buddha's Dinner''.

Life

Bich Minh Nguyen was born in 1974 in Saigon, which her family fled by ship the following year. After staying in refugee camps in Guam and at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, they settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Nguyen grew up. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Fine Arts and is married to novelist

Porter Shreve Porter Shreve (born Washington, DC) is an American author and professor of English and Creative Writing. He is the son of writer Susan Shreve. Life He graduated from the University of Michigan Creative Writing MFA Program in 1998, where he studie ...

. They have two children. In 2005, she received a PEN/Jerard Award. She taught at Purdue University and the University of San Francisco, and is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches fiction and creative non-fiction writing.

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Author's website

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