Andrew X. Pham

Andrew X. Pham (1967 – April 30, 2025) was a Vietnamese-born American author and the founder of Spoonwiz. Pham was also an independent writer, journalist, and engineer. He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990, and worked as an aircraft engineer before becoming a freelance technical writer and journalist. From 1994 to 2000, he was a book reviewer, food writer, and restaurant critic for Metro Newspapers in Silicon Valley, California.