Anthony Veasna So

Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA in fiction at Syracuse University. His story collection, Afterparties, was a New York Times bestseller, was long-listed for te Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and won both the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction and the NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. A native of Stockton, California, he taught at Colgate University, Syracuse University, and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, California.