Hieu Minh Nguyen (Vietnamese name: Nguyễn Minh Hiếu) is a Vietnamese-American poet based in

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. A graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, his writing has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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, Poetry London, Best American Poetry,

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, Muzzle Magazine, The Paris-American, ''the '' Indiana Review, and more.'' He identifies as

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. Nguyen is the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry, a

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fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, winner of the VERVE grant from

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, and the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from

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. 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 was a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in poetry at

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. In 2014, his debut collection of poetry, ''This Way to the Sugar'', was a finalist for both the

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and the Minnesota Book Award. His second collection, '' Not Here'', was published in April 2018 by

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Published works

Books

*'' Not Here'', (

, 2018) *''This Way to the Sugar,'' (

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, 2014)

References

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