Monique Truong

2000 Alumna

Cottage: Oak

Known for her best-selling, award-winning novels, The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits, Monique Truong is a Vietnamese-American novelist, essayist, and librettist. She is a contributor to O Magazine, Real Simple, and other notable publications, often writing about food, and serves as Vice President of the Authors Guild Council.