Aimee Phan

Aimee Phan (born 1977) is an American novelist and educator of Vietnamese descent. She teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.

Early life and education Aimee Phan was born in 1977 and raised in Orange County, California. Her mother was a social worker in the Little Saigon neighborhood. We Should Never Meet (2004) was named a notable book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction, and was a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards.

She resides in Berkeley, California with her husband and two kids.

Selected works Books We Should Never Meet: Stories (2004, St. Martin's Press) The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel (2012, St. Martin's Press)

Essays Why Mainstream Critics Fail Writers of Color in Salon The Price of Urban Family Living in The New York Times' The Motherlode Housed in Guernica The Disciples of Memory in The Rumpus Where They Came From in The New York Times

Awards and honors 2004, Association of Asian American Studies Book Award 2005, Finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in Fiction 2005, Kiriyama Prize Notable Book 2010, National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 2014, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency

Reviews Carmela Ciuraru, September 29, 2004, We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan, The Los Angeles Times Anhoni Patel, September 19, 2004, We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan, San Francisco Chronicle Jee Yoon Lee, May 10, 2012 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan in Hyphen Magazine Susan M. Lee, March 8, 2012 The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan in In the Fray Magazine