Yasmina Din Madden is a Vietnamese American writer living in Iowa. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Idaho Review, PANK, Necessary Fiction, The Fairy Tale Review, Hobart, The Forge, and other journals. She is the winner of the 2022 Oxford Flash Fiction prize, and her short stories have been finalists for The Iowa Review Award in Fiction, The Masters Review Anthology, and nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is an Associate Professor of English at Drake University, an okay runner, a good cook, and an excellent eater. She is represented by Andrea Blatt at William Morris Endeavor, New York.

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