Nyuol Lueth Tong

Nyuol Lueth Tong was born in South Sudan and educated at Duke University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Yale University. A Truman Capote Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Tong’s writing has appeared in Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, The Baffler, and elsewhere. He is the editor of There Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan (McSweeney’s, 2013) and In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (McSweeney’s, 2018).