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Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen

Assistant Professor
EducationBA (University of Maryland, College Park); MFA (New College of California, San Francisco)
Areas of ExpertisePoetry, creative writing, diasporic and immigrant subjectivity, Asian American poetry, contemporary poetry and poetics
https://www.hoa-nguyen.com (external link) 

Biography:

Since earning an MFA from New College of California, Hoa Nguyen has written five full-length books including As Long as Trees Last (external link) , Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 (external link) , and Violet Energy Ingots (external link)  which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her 2021 book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (external link) , was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award; the winner of the Canada Book Award; and named “Best Poetry of 2021” by CBC Books, The Globe and Mail, NPR Books, Library Journal, and Entropy Magazine. Since 2017, she has been an active member of She Who Has No Masters (external link) , a Vietnamese and South East Asian diasporic transnational collective womxn and non-binary writers, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship.​​ As a collective of Vietnamese and SE Asian writers, poets, performers, and scholars engaging with questions of diaspora, marginality, and refugee-immigrant subjectivity, She Who Has No Masters engages in collaborative artistic practice to enact a poetics of engagement and a community of repair and possibility. A forum of critical writing dedicated to Hoa’s work appeared in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review in 2021, and in 2019, her writing was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Selected Publications:

2021 A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (external link) . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.

2016 Violet Energy Ingots (external link) . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.

2014 Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 (external link) . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.

2012 As Long as Trees Last (external link) . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.

2009 Hecate Lochia. Prague, Czech Republic, Hot Whiskey Press.

2002 Your Ancient See Through. Honolulu, HI: Sub Press.