Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian author raised in Halifax who now lives in Toronto. Her debut novel, Sunshine Nails, was longlisted for Canada Reads and named one of the best books of 2023 by NPR and CBC. Her journalism has appeared in Wired, The Washington Post, and the Toronto Star. Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead was longlisted for the 2026 Scotiabank Giller Prize.