Hoa Nguyen
Assistant Professor Faculty of Arts Department of English Toronto, Ontario nguyen.hoa@torontomu.ca
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Since 2017, Hoa Nguyen has been an active member of She Who Has No Masters, a Vietnamese and South East Asian diasporic transnational collective of womxn and non-binary writers, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship. As a collective of Vietnamese and SE Asian writers, poets, performers, a...
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Bio/Research
Since 2017, Hoa Nguyen has been an active member of She Who Has No Masters, a Vietnamese and South East Asian diasporic transnational collective of 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.
Since earning an MFA from the New College of California, Hoa Nguyen has written five full-length books, including As Long as Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her 2021 book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, 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.
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.
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Since earning an MFA from the New College of California, Hoa Nguyen has written five full-length books, including As Long as Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, which received a 2017 Griffin Prize nomination. Her 2021 book, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, 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.
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.
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