Hieu Minh Nguyen

Vietnamese American poet
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroVietnamese American poet
PlacesUnited States of America
isPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
BirthSaint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
Education
Warren Wilson College
Awards
Kundiman fellow 
The details

Biography

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American poet based in Minneapolis. A graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, his writing has appeared in PBS NewsHour, POETRY magazine, Buzzfeed, Poetry London, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Muzzle Magazine, The Paris-American, the Indiana Review, and more. He identifies as queer.

Nguyen is the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry, a Kundiman fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, winner of the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts, and the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center. He has been a recipient of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Summer Residency, and has participated in many other residencies and fellowships - including the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. He is currently a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

In 2014, his debut collection of poetry, This Way to the Sugar, was a finalist for the both the Lambda Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. His second collection, Not Here, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press.

Published Works

Books

  • Not Here, (Coffee House Press, 2018)
  • This Way to the Sugar, (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014)
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