Phong Nguyen is editor of Pleiades and author of PAGES FOR THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (2014) and MEMORY SICKNESS AND OTHER STORIES (2011). He directs the Unsung Masters Series, for which he edited the volume, NANCY HALE: ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF A LOST AMERICAN MASTER (2012). Nguyen teaches fiction and American literature at the University of Central Missouri, where he lives with his wife, the artist Sarah Nguyen, and their three children.