Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her) is the author of the novel The 23rd Hero, a #1 Amazon bestseller, Audie Awards(R) finalist, and winner of the 2024 Reader's Choice Award for Best Adult Novel (Bronze). She is the co-author of the memoir Where Wars Ends, a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award winner for Autobiography/Memoir. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, and Slackjaw, among others.