Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. He is a multiple American Graphic Design Awardee and an Ignatz Award nominee whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and Medium. He is the author of Bittersweet: A Pandemic Sketchbook and the multimedia comic series, The Gulf.  With the website, Mom’s Viet Kitchen, Nguyên shares multimedia recipes that reveal family stories. He is also the vocalist, pianist, composer, and bandleader of the jazz trio: Superior Cling. 

Nguyên is currently a digital media lecturer at Loyola University Maryland. He previously served as the senior video producer/editor at Science Magazine. Nguyên lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and terrier