Brian Truong

Brian Truong is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has received fellowships and support from Millay Arts, Periplus, Tin House, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. “Fake Handbags,” winner of the inaugural Georgia Review Prose Prize, is his first published essay and is a part of his memoir-in-progress about growing up in a family of working-class Vietnamese refugees in Texas.

Brian Truong

Features

Fake Handbags [winner]

On Lunar New Year, we dressed up and visited our Buddhist temple outside Dallas. Dad wore tight jeans, brown loafers, and a button-down shirt that had armani emblazoned on his […]

IN Summer 2023

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

Brian Truong

Fake Handbags [winner]

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...