Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen (born 1967) is an American poet and academic.

Early life and education Born in Vĩnh Long, Nguyen is the daughter of a Vietnamese mother; her biological father, an American man, abandoned the family before Nguyen was born. She was raised in the Washington, D.C., area. Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New College of California in San Francisco.

Career With her husband Dale Smith, Nguyen edited ten issues of Skanky Possum magazine, and under this imprint, published books and chapbooks by Kristin Prevallet, Tom Clark, Frank O'Hara, and others.

Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sound: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009), The Best of Fence (Fence Books, 2009), For the Time Being: A Bootstrap Anthology (Bootstrap Books, 2008), An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman House, 1998), and in Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions, 2008). She is the author of Dark (1998), Parrot Drum (Leroy, 2000), Your Ancient See Through (Sub Press, 2002) and Red Juice (Effing, 2005), Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey Press, 2009), as well as many online publications. Nguyen is frequently asked to give readings, act as poet in residence, and lecture on poetry for organizations across the country.

Nguyen was a judge for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Personal life Nguyen lives in Toronto, Ontario. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021) Chapbooks and booklets Dark (Mike and Dale's Press, 1998) Let's Eat Red for Fun (Booglit, 2000) Parrot Drum (Leroy Press, 2000) Add Some Blue (Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, 2004) Six Poems (Tolling Elves, 2005) Red Juice (Effing Press, 2005) Poems (Dos Press Chaps, 2007) What Have You (Longhouse Poetry, 2008) Kiss a Bomb Tattoo (Effing Press, 2009) Chinaberry (Fact-Simile, 2010) Late in the Month (Country Valley Press, 2011) Tells of the Crackling (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015) Ask About Language As If It Forgets (knife fork book, 2019) List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected"Fortune Cookie No Fortune"2022