Hoa Nguyen
Biography:
Since earning an MFA from New College of California, Hoa Nguyen has written five full-length books including , , and which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her 2021 book, , was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Governor General鈥檚 Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award; the winner of the Canada Book Award; and named 鈥淏est Poetry of 2021鈥� by CBC Books, The Globe and Mail, NPR Books, Library Journal, and Entropy Magazine. Since 2017, she has been an active member of , a Vietnamese and South East Asian diasporic transnational collective womxn and non-binary writers, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship.鈥嬧�� 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鈥檚 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 . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.
2016 . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.
2014 . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.
2012 . Seattle, WA: Wave Books.
2009 Hecate Lochia. Prague, Czech Republic, Hot Whiskey Press.
2002 Your Ancient See Through. Honolulu, HI: Sub Press.