Quan Phanguyen

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Dream For More in a Deck of Playing Cards

Personal Anecdote

My first submission ended in rejection. I polished this at a professor’s recommendation, and am pleased with the result even if I feel it to be not the type of story I wish to be known for. I ...

Asian-American’s Entering the Field of Fantasy: Examining The Present Space And Predicting the Horizon Incoming

Senior Thesis

A poorer introduction into my academic writing. Like everything I do, my abilities couldn’t keep up with my ambitions. I originally intended this research to go a vastly different way, analyzi...

Growing Pains (Berkeley Fiction Review)

Editing Example

“Growing Pains,” published in issue 43 of Berkeley Fiction Review went through the standard editing process expected of the journal. I was the editor in charge of content editing. I’ve never b...

Nothing Is More Important

One Vietnamese-American Life

For my final assignment in my Asian-American creative writing class, I placed my full beating heart. I was heavily inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ideas of Nothing in The Sympathizer. One piec...

UC Berkeley Scavenger Hunt

Find my pages.

Do you want a fun (debatable) event to play with your friends with an annoying amount of set-up and execution? Watch people you like scurry around Berkeley campus in a scramble to get imaginary ...