American · 1992–2020
Anthony Veasna So died at twenty-eight, leaving a single story collection that announced a major talent. "Afterparties" captured Cambodian American life in California's Central Valley with humor, heartbreak, and formal invention. So wrote about refugees and their children navigating trauma, assimilation, and desire with the confidence of someone who had found his subject. His death in 2020 ended a career before it properly began.