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Nyuol Lueth Tong

Nyuol Lueth Tong is a writer, critic, and playwright based in San Francisco. Editor of There Is a Country, the first ever anthology of short fiction from his native country of South Sudan, Tong studied philosophy and comparative literature at Duke University and fiction (MFA) at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Brother

Let’s call him Brother. He walked into one of the cash-only coffee shops on Valencia Street, which was crowded with white folk, mostly writers or aspiring ones, I could tell from the thick, unbreathable air of seriousness, I mean self-importance (to which I contributed my own ...