Brian Truong
@trubrian.bsky.social
Writing nonfiction, making ceramics; support from Yaddo, Ucross, Periplus, Millay Arts, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. Winner of the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize.
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ICYMI I’ll be at #AWP2025 with these amazing panelists to talk about The Cost of Assimilation: Asian Diaspora Writers on Losing Their First Language on March 29 @annietan.com @trubrian.bsky.social @geetha-iyer.bsky.social See you there!!
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
ICYMI I’ll be at #AWP2025 with these amazing panelists to talk about The Cost of Assimilation: Asian Diaspora Writers on Losing Their First Language on March 29 @annietan.com @trubrian.bsky.social @geetha-iyer.bsky.social See you there!!
back in the studio
November 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
back in the studio
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I relate so much to this essay by @trubrian.bsky.social on the quiet grief of losing your mother tongue ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...
The The The The
In third grade, I was trilingual but could not pronounce “the” or “that” properly. No one corrected me—not my parents, my friends, or my teachers. They spared me like I had something stuck in my teeth...
ecotonemagazine.org
May 16, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I relate so much to this essay by @trubrian.bsky.social on the quiet grief of losing your mother tongue ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...
my first post on bluesky (hi! who all is here?) — for ecotone, i wrote about my language loss, the innocent and weighty ways in which vietnamese & cantonese slipped from me. linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...
ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...
The The The The
In third grade, I was trilingual but could not pronounce “the” or “that” properly. No one corrected me—not my parents, my friends, or my teachers. They spared me like I had something stuck in my teeth...
ecotonemagazine.org
May 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM
my first post on bluesky (hi! who all is here?) — for ecotone, i wrote about my language loss, the innocent and weighty ways in which vietnamese & cantonese slipped from me. linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.
ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...
ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...