Phong Nguyen is the author of two novels, Roundabout and The Adventures of Joe Harper (winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award), and two story collections, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History and Memory Sickness (winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award). He is the editor, with Dan Chaon and Norah Lind, of Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master. His own stories have appeared in more than fifty national literary journals, including Agni, Boulevard, Iowa Review, and North American Review. He is the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia.