Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer.

He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.

Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez.

He had arrived in San Francisco on October 12, 1941, aboard the Ruth Alexander leaving his wife and three daughters in the Philippines.

He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor.