Biography
Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the author of thirteen books, most recently the global bestselling novels The Mountains Sing and Dust Child and the poetry collection The Color of Peace. Her writing has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and has received the PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Literary Award, the International Book Award, the BookBrowse Best Debut Award, the Lannan Literary Fellowship in Fiction, as well as Runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has a Ph.D in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.