About Rebecca

Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her) is the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling novel The 23rd Hero, a 2025 Audie Awards finalist and winner of the 2024 Readers' Choice Award for Best Adult Novel (Bronze). She is the recipient of the 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award for Where War Ends (with Tom Voss).

Rebecca's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, and Slackjaw, among others. Her stage play, Hypotheticals, was the 2023 winner of the Epiphanies New Works festival at Wild Imaginings Theatre Company and received its world premiere at Kith & Kin Theatre in Milwaukee in 2024.

Rebecca studied fiction with Susan Choi and Hannah Tinti at the Sirenland Writers Workshop in Positano, Italy. She lives with her family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

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For longer bios and additional credits, view The 23rd Hero media kit.

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Learn more about: 

• The 23rd Hero

• Where War Ends

• Hypotheticals

• Upcoming events

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