Please join the Residential MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Department of English for a reading by our spring short-residency visiting writer, Dr. Phong Nguyen.

Dr. Nguyen is a writer of historical fiction (Bronze Drum), experimental fiction (Roundabout: an Improvisational Fiction), spinoffs (The Adventures of Joe Harper), alternate history (Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History), dirty realism (Memory Sickness), and more.He teaches fiction-writing at the University of Missouri, where he is the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing. He has edited volumes including Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master and Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology.

This reading is made possible by generous support from the College of Liberal Arts' Hilliard Endowment and the Department of English's Visiting Speakers Committee and Distinguished Visitors Fund, as well as our hosts, the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art.