Carrie Hsu

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Southern California. His debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and numerous other accolades. A regular contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Nguyen is a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship. Most recently, Nguyen published an essay collection entitled A Man of Two Faces — an eclectic exploration of colonialism, intersectionality, and how politics, history, and identity are indelibly entwined.

Yiyun Li is a novelist, essayist, and professor of creative writing at Princeton University. She is the author of five novels, the most recent being the 2022 Book of Goose, a story about the friendship between two girls growing up in France post-World War II. Her collection of essays Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You In Your Life was published in 2017. Her newest short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, was published in 2023. Her fiction has won the PEN/Hemingway award and the PEN/Faulkner award.

Paul Yoon is the author of four previous works of fiction: Once the Shore, which was a New York Times Notable Book; Snow Hunters, which won the Young Lions Fiction Award; The Mountain, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year; and Run Me to Earth, which was one of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020 and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. Yoon is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University.