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Nyuol Lueth Tong (born January 1, 1991) is a South Sudanese writer and editor. Tong is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Bare Life Review, a literary journal that publishes work by immigrants and refugees. He is the editor of the first-ever anthology of short fiction from South Sudan, There Is a Country (McSweeney’s, 2013) as well as In Their Faces a Landmark: Stories of Movement and Displacement (McSweeney’s, 2018), a collection of stories by immigrant and refugee writers. Tong studied philosophy and comparative literature at Duke University and fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Baffler, Intersect Magazine, New Sudan, Gurtong, and NPR, among other publications. He is a Ph.D. student of Comparative Literature at Yale University.