Vietnamese American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 debut work, The Sympathizer, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his current collection of short stories, The Refugees, is a bestseller. Most recently Nguyen has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArhtur Foundations. In addition to his literary work, Nguyen is also a contributor to theLos Angeles Timesand theNew York Times;and he holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and is a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.