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SUMMARY:Vanderbilt Visiting Writers presents\:  Bich Minh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Reading from her latest work \nBich Minh  [http\://www.bichminhnguyen.com/] Nguyen [http\://www.bichminhnguyen.com/]&#39\;s first book\, Stealing Buddha&#39\;s Dinner [http\://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Buddhas-Dinner-Bich-Nguyen/dp/0670038326/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243643074&sr=8-5#reader] (Viking Penguin\, 2007)\, received the PEN/Jerard Award from the PEN American Center and was named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2007\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book\, an Asian American Literature Award finalist\, and a BookSense pick. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Gourmet magazine\; Jane magazine\;  Dream Me Home Safely\: Writers on Growing up in America\; and Watermark\: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Her first novel\, Short Girls \, will be published by Viking Penguin in late July 2009.\nShe received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and currently teaches creative nonfiction\, fiction\, and Asian American Literature at Purdue University. She lives in Chicago and West Lafayette\, Indiana with her husband Porter Shreve [http\://www.portershreve.com/] (whose third novel\, When the White House Was Ours [http\://www.amazon.com/When-White-House-Was-Ours/dp/0618722106/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210817646&sr=8-1]\, was published by Houghton Mifflin in September 2008). Nguyen and Shreve have coedited three anthologies\: 30/30\: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years (Penguin Academic)\; Contemporary Creative Nonfiction\: I & Eye (Longman)\; and The Contemporary American Short Story (Longman).\nEvent is part of The Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series sponsored by an endowment given to the university by Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt.\n
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ORGANIZER;CN=Margaret Quigley:MAILTO:margaret.quigley@vanderbilt.edu
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