Hoa Nguyen
Assistant Professor Faculty of Arts Department of English Toronto, Ontario nguyen.hoa@torontomu.ca
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Since earning an MFA from 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 fi...
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Since earning an MFA from 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. Since 2017, she has been an active member of She Who Has No Masters, 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.
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