Brian Truong

Brian Truong is a Vietnamese-American writer, who has received fellowships and support from Millay Arts, Periplus Collective, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He won the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize and has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. His work is published in the Rumpus, the Chicago Review of Books, and the Georgia Review, among other magazines.

Nonfiction – Issue 35

The word "the" written on a chalkboard four times.

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Grieving the loss of familial tongues, a once trilingual, second-generation Texan considers if a loss of identity is the cost of assimilation.