Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is an award-winning writer and author of thirteen books of poetry, non-fiction and fiction in Vietnamese and English. She has won numerous international prizes including the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the International Book Award, and the BookBrowse Best Debut Award. Her writing has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She was named by Forbes Việt Nam as one of 20 inspiring women of 2021 and recently by the Research House of Asia as one of Top 10 Female Novelists Shaping the Literary Scene in Southeast Asia. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai divides her time between Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan.

As of July 2025