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Reading Series, Spring 2012

MONIQUE TRUONG, novelist

MONIQUE TRUONG was born in Saigon and currently lives in New York City. Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the 7th Annual Asian American Literary Award. The Book of Salt also was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Britain's Guardian First Book Award.

Her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a 25 Best Fiction Books of 2010 by Barnes & Noble, a 10 Best Fiction Books of 2010 by Hudson Booksellers, and the adult fiction Honor Book by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.

Truong is also a contributing co-editor of Watermark: An Anthology of Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1998).

She has contributed to the New York Times, the Times of London (Saturday Magazine), Gourmet, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, Men’s Vogue, Real Simple, Allure, Time Magazine (Asia Edition), and other publications.

Truong was a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellow, a Princeton University’s Hodder Fellow, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.

She has been in residence at the Lannan Foundation, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Ucross Foundation, the Sea Change Residency, the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Fundacion Valparaiso, the Ledig House International Writers’ Residency, and the Santa Maddalena Foundation.

Truong serves on the board of the PEN American Center and the Authors Guild.

Truong is also an intellectual property attorney.