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Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Hieu Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American poet born and raised by a single mother in the Mcdonough Housing Projects in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the youngest person to have become a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.[1]

His debut collection of poetry, This Way to the Sugar, was also a finalist for the Lambda Book Award.[2]

From his website in 2015, "Hieu Minh Nguyen's poetry has been published in The Journal, PANK, Vinyl, Muzzle, The Paris-American, and Indiana Review. Hieu is a Kundiman fellow, a recipient of the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts, the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center, and a recipient of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Summer Residency. He is currently living in Minneapolis.[3]

References

  1. ^ Luxury Awaits http://www.luxuryawaits.com/versesandflow/season-5/poets-season-5/hieu-minh-nguyen/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Write Bloody. http://writebloody.com/shop/products/this-way-to-the-sugar-by-hieu-nguyen/. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ Hieu Minh Nguyen http://www.hieuminhnguyen.com/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)