Owner
WRITING REFUGE
Lilly Nguyen is the owner of Writing Refuge. She is a writer, scholar, and editor. Nguyen earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley and my Ph.D. from UCLA where she trained in feminist science and technology studies. She writes on the topics of: race, place, and technology; knowledge and inheritance; motherhood and daughterhood; language and refugee life. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, The Southern Review, River Teeth, New Media and Society, The Journal of Asian American Studies, and other venues.
Her work has been recognized by awards from the Fulbright International Institute, the US National Science Foundation, TinHouse, PEN Emerging Writers Fellowship, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
Selected Publication
Jun 2024 • North American Review 309(2)
Jan 2023 • The Southern Review 59(1), 92-106 • Louisiana State University Press
Dec 2022 • River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 24(1), 35-47 • Ball State University
Freedom as Moral Affect and the Whiteness of Mutuality
May 2018 • Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 4(1):1-10
Feb 2017 • Journal of Asian American Studies 20(1):51-68
Inverting the Techno-politics of Hacking in the Global South
Feb 2016 • New Media and Society 18(4):637-652