Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history--all dissected fearlessly.Author: Hieu Minh NguyenPublisher: Coffee House...

Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history--all dissected fearlessly.

Author: Hieu Minh Nguyen
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/10/2018
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781566895095


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2018 pg. 53
Library Journal 05/15/2018 pg. 64

About the Author
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, both of his collections of poetry were also finalists for a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2019 Hieu was awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He is also 2018 Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, the recipient of the Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grant, and an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland and is a graduate from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.