Yasmina Din Madden is a Vietnamese American writer living in Iowa. Her story collection, You Know Nothing, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in February 2026, and her writing has been published in Electric Literature, The Idaho Review, The Fairy Tale Review, and other journals. She won the 2022 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and her short stories have been finalists for The Iowa Review Award in Fiction and nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is an Associate Professor of English at Drake University, an okay runner, a good cook, and an excellent eater. She is represented by Andrea Blatt at William Morris Endeavor, New York.
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