Uyen Phuong Dang is a Vietnamese American writer from Saigon, Vietnam. Her fiction has appeared in CRAFT, The Cincinnati Review, Fugue, and Passages North, and has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, among other honors. She has also received scholarships and grants from Tin House, Fulbright, as well as the U.S. Institute of Peace for Nhà Nha, a digital album dedicated to connecting Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese communities through photos and storytelling.  

A graduate of Dartmouth College (2021) in Cultural Anthropology, she is an incoming doctoral candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University (2024-). Uyen currently lives in Saigon, where she is at work on a collection of stories based on Vietnamese folktales, memories, and the legacies of mothers to daughters.