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Rebecca Anne Nguyen is a writer, playwright, and co-author of the award-winning memoir, Where War Ends. The 23rd Hero is her first novel.

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Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her/hers) is a Milwaukee-based writer, playwright, and co-author of the award-winning memoir, Where War Ends. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, Slackjaw, Defenestration, Wintermute Lit, and Military Times, among others. The 23rd Hero is her first novel.

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Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her/hers) is the author (with Tom Voss) of Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal , a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Autobiography & Memoir. Rebecca’s fiction has appeared in Defenestration, Wintermute Lit, and Write Launch, and her humor has been published on Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Frazzled. Rebecca’s nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Insider, Mramamia, Coffeelicious, Indeed Design, and in the Military Times. Her stage play Hypotheticals was the 2023 winner of the Epiphanies New Works festival. The 23rd Hero is her first novel.

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Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her/hers) is the author (with Tom Voss) of Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal , a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Autobiography & Memoir. Rebecca’s fiction has appeared in Defenestration, Wintermute Lit, and Write Launch, and her humor has been published on Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Frazzled. Rebecca’s nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, Insider,, and in the Military Times. She has studied with Susan Choi and Hannah Tinti at the Sirenland Writers Workshop in Positano, Italy. The 23rd Hero is her first novel.

Rebecca is a playwright whose short plays and one acts have been produced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. Staged readings of her first full-length play, Hypotheticals, have been produced as part of World Premiere Wisconsin, Cincinnati LAB New Works Festival, and Epiphanies New Works Festival in Waco, TX, where her play was the 2023 festival winner. Hypotheticals will receive its world premiere production at Kith & Kin Theatre Collective in Milwaukee, WI in April 2024. It will also be produced as a regional premiere at Wild Imaginings Theatre in Waco in November 2024.

Rebecca is a conference speaker and workshop leader. She has given talks and led breakout sessions at Netflix, Adobe, and Confab,  the world's largest content strategy conference, as well as Digital Summit Chicago and Digital Summit Kansas City, 

When she’s not writing fiction, Rebecca is a UX Content Designer who helps companies and brands improve their digital experiences with words. She works with Generative AI, such as Large Language Models, to help prevent toxic content from harming users and companies. 

Born and raised just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rebecca has called many cities home, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Syracuse, and Charlotte, as well as Chiang Mai, Thailand and Hoi An, Viet Nam. Her favorite city in the world is Vancouver, B.C., which is where her novel, The 23rd Hero, begins. Rebecca is Mom to Patrick and Aden, Cat Mom to Prema, and Plant Mom to a growing collection of houseplants.