Kevin Nguyen
American author
Kevin Nguyen is an American author and editor of Vietnamese descent. He is the author of New Waves and Mỹ Documents, as well as the Features Editor at The Verge.
Career
Early in his career, Nguyen worked at a startup called Oyster where Nguyen served as the Editorial Director and launched the Oyster Review. After Oyster was acquired by Google, Nguyen worked as the Editorial Director of Google Play Books. He then became an editor at GQ and is now currently the Features Editor at The Verge. His journalism work has been nominated as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award.
Nguyen's writing has additionally appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and other publications, as well as the horror anthology, Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror, published by Catapult in 2020. He also formerly wrote a book column for Grantland. He is currently at work on a biography of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
New Waves
In 2020, Nguyen published his debut novel, New Waves, which follows the lives of Lucas, a young Asian American who works in customer service, and Margo, a Black software engineer, as they work at a startup and soon try to undermine it.
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