Part bird. Part ghost.

Uyen Phuong Dang is a writer living between Da Lat and New Haven. She is a former program coordinator for the Saigon-based arts collective Sàn Art (2022-2024), a Fulbright recipient (2022), a Tin House Scholar (2024), and is currently a Student Editor for American Ethnological Society. Her creative works have appeared and are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Slowdown, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

She holds a BA in Anthropology with High Honors from Dartmouth College, where she received the Mary E. Wesbrook Thesis Prize in Anthropology. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University and studying recollections of rest in highland Vietnam through flowers, stories, and spatial poetics.

She is also at work on a speculative poetry collection.