Beth Nguyen Takes Over As Director Of MFA in Writing Program

Bich (Beth) Minh Nguyen has assumed the role of academic director for the MFA in Writing program, effective beginning in the fall '15 semester.

Author of the memoir Stealing Buddha's Dinner, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award, the novel Short Girls, winner of an American Book Award, and the novel Pioneer Girl. Coeditor of the anthologies Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye and 30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years.