Hoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen (born 1967) is an American poet.

Born in Vĩnh Long, near Saigon, in 1967, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington D.C. area and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco. She now lives in Austin, Texas where she leads the [http://www.writenet.org/virtualpoetrywrkshp.html Teachers & Writers Collaborative's Virtual Poetry Workshop] .

She co-edits [http://www.skankypossum.com "Skanky Possum"] , a book imprint and journal, with her husband Dale Smith, and curates a monthly reading series in Austin. Her poems have been published in various journals and in [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1883689619 An Anthology of New (American) Poets] (Talisman House, 1998). She is the author of [http://www.skankypossum.com/dark.htm "Dark"] (1998), [http://www.durationpress.com/leroy/parrot.htm "Parrot Drum"] (Leroy, 2000), [http://www.durationpress.com/subpress/ancient.htm "Your Ancient See Through"] (Sub Press, 2002) and [http://effingpress.com/books/juice "Red Juice"] (Effing, 2005).

An example of her most notable work is [http://www.corpse.org/issue_8/cyber_bag/index.html "MEAN SUDDENLY BITCH WOMAN"] , praised for its subtle attack on man's virtue in a soulless society.

External links

* [http://home.jps.net/~nada/hoapoems.htm Six poems] by Hoa Nguyen at Readme
* [http://www.durationpress.com/authors/nguyen/home.html Ten poems] by Hoa Nguyen at Duration Press
* [http://www.theeastvillage.com/t5/nguyen/a.htm Nine poems] by Hoa Nguyen at The East Village Poetry Web
* [http://www.fencemag.com/v2n1/work/hoanguyen.html "Let's see if she'll run away"] , a poem at Fence Magazine
* [http://www.longhousepoetry.com/nguyen.html "Of Mercury"] , a poem from Love Thy Poet Postcard Series
* [http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/red-juice-by-hoa-nguyen.html Hoa Nguyen's "Red Juice"] reviewed by Sueyeun Juliette Lee at Galatea Resurrects
* [http://versemag.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-review-of-hoa-nguyen.html Hoa Nguyen's "Red Ruice" reviewed] by Nikki Widner at Verse
* [http://home.jps.net/~nada/nguyen.htm Hoa Nguyen interviewed] by Carol Mirakove
* [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/hnguyenintro.html Introduction to a reading by poet Hoa Nguyen] at the Kelly Writers House, September 19, 2002
* [http://www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/10-2006vol1/10teacherswriters.html NEA spotlight on Hoa Nguyen] and the Teachers & Writers Collaborative's Virtual Poetry Workshop
* [http://tienve.org/home/literature/viewLiterature.do?action=viewArtwork&artworkId=3598 Seven poems] translated into Vietnamese by Linh Dinh