Hoa Nguyen is the author of five books of poetry including As Long As Trees Last, Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008, and Violet Energy Ingots, nominated for a 2017 Griffin Prize for poetry.
While at MacDowell, Nguyen produced 21 poems, and rewrote, revised, and sequenced her manuscript in progress, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, a verse meditation on histories, hauntings, origin, and song. It has an expected publication date of Spring 2021. This poetic narrative investigates historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon” and includes a verse biography on her mother, a celebrated stunt motorcycle rider in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe.
Portrait by Waylon Smith
