David Malin Roodman

Hoangmai (Mai) Pham is a Vietnamese American refugee, physician, artist, mother, and debut memoirist. Bridge from Saigon, her first memoir, was shortlisted for Black Spring Press’ International Beverly Prize for Literature.

At six, Mai fled with her family from Saigon on a cargo plane at the end of the war to the United States. She went on to earn degrees from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She pursued answers to mysteries about her family and her own psychological journey with interviews, voyages back to Vietnam, and a scientific healer’s eye on her traumas.

Mai was the first Chief Innovation Officer for Medicare and Medicaid. When not making changes in American healthcare, she hosts a baking club and relishes in her “Zoomagogue” Jewish community.