Discipline: Literature – poetry

Hoa Nguyen

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

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

Studios

Calderwood

Hoa Nguyen worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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