OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF LENA NGUYEN

Lena is an award-winning writer of speculative fiction and fantasy. She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona and has studied writing all over the world---including at Stanford, Brown, Harvard, and UCLA. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Cornell University, where she also taught as a lecturer of English. 

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Lena's work has encompassed writing across many spheres. Along with lecturing and teaching, she has worked as a creative consultant; a developmental editor; a game developer and writer; and as an editor for the literary publication EPOCH. 

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Lena's debut novel, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, is a science fiction thriller featuring a misanthropic psychologist and her android companions as they voyage on a haunted spaceship. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE is published by DAW Books and Penguin Random House, and can be ordered online or anywhere books are sold.

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Lena is currently developing a choice-based interactive fantasy game through her independent studio, Manifold Studios. She's also working on finishing her new fantasy novel: a post-apocalyptic desert romp set in a ruined empire populated by assassins, mythical beasts, and the undead.