Beth Nguyen

Nguyen is the author of the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl and the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Recent Articles

'The Chair' on Netflix Hits Home for Academia's Women of Color

I’ve been an English professor for nearly 20 years, but people still tell me I don’t look like one. Not because I’m young (I’m not), but because I’m Asian American. Whenever professors are depicted in...

By Beth Nguyen August 23, 2021

The Comfort of a Lunar New Year in Isolation

Lunar New Year might bring to mind festivals and fireworks, but I’ve always associated it with a kind of isolation. Long before the pandemic, long before the rest of America learned about sriracha and pho,...

By Beth Nguyen February 11, 2021

Cake Isn't Just Cake During a Pandemic

When quarantine times began, everyone around me started making sourdough. I baked cakes. Nothing against bread; I just crave the precision of a layer cake, the fiddly work, as it’s called on The Great British...

By Beth Nguyen October 29, 2020
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