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Name
  
Aimee Phan


Role
  
Author

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Books
  
We should never meet, The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles, University of Iowa

Aimee Phan is a Vietnamese-American author. She was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first novel, We Should Never Meet, was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, USA Today and The Oregonian among other publications. She has received residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. She worked as an assistant professor in English at Washington State University from fall 2005 to summer 2007, and now teaches as an associate professor in writing and literature at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.

Contents

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Books

  • We Should Never Meet: Stories
  • The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel
  • Essays

  • Why Mainstream Critics Fail Writers of Color in Salon
  • The Price of Urban Family Living in The New York Times' The Motherlode
  • Housed in Guernica
  • The Disciples of Memory in The Rumpus
  • Where They Came From in The New York Times
  • Awards

  • 2004 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award
  • Finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards in Fiction
  • 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
  • 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
  • 2014 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency
  • Reviews

  • Carmela Ciuraru, September 29, 2004, We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan, The Los Angeles Times
  • Anhoni Patel, September 19, 2004, We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan, San Francisco Chronicle
  • Jee Yoon Lee, May 10, 2012 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan in Hyphen Magazine
  • Susan M. Lee, March 8, 2012 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan in In the Fray Magazine
  • References

    Aimee Phan Wikipedia