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Hoa Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a BA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MFA from New College of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on poetry, creative writing, diasporic and immigrant subjectivity, Asian American poetry, and contemporary poetics. Nguyen is a prominent figure in diasporic literary communities, co-founding the She Who Has No Masters collective, a transnational network of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian womxn and non-binary writers.
Her award-winning publications include *A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure* (2021), which earned a National Book Award nomination and the Canada Book Award, and *Violet Energy Ingots* (2016), shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. She has been recognized with prestigious accolades such as the Neustadt Prize nomination (2019), often compared to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Education:
- BA, University of Maryland, College Park
- MFA, New College of California, San Francisco
- Awards:
- 2021 Canada Book Award
- 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Nominee
- 2019 Neustadt Prize Nominee
- Community Engagement:
- Founder of She Who Has No Masters Mentorship Program
- Member of Vietnamese/Southeast Asian diasporic collective focusing on artistic collaboration and community repair
