User:NguyenDo

A poet, journalist, and translator, Nguyen Do was born in Ha Tinh province in 1959 and moved to Hanoi as a youth. After taking a degree in literature from Vinh University, he taught at a high school in city of Pleiku then lived for many years in Ho Chi Minh City, where he worked as an editor and reporter for a literary review and other newspapers and magazines before moving to the United States to study English and journalism in 1999. He has published eleven books. His poetry collections include The Fish Wharf and The Autumn Evening (in collaboration with Thanh Thao, Culture and Information Department of Gialai Kontum province,1988,) The Empty Space (Association Writers of Vietnam, 1991.) and New Darkness (Association Writers of Vietnam, 2009.) With Paul Hoover, he edited and translated Black Dog, Black Night, an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese poetry (Milkweed Edition, 2008), Beyond the Court Selected poetry of Nguyen Trai (forthcoming Counterpath Press, 2009,) 12+3 selected poetry of Thanh Thao, bilingual edition edited (Association Writers of Vietnam, 2008,) and Thirty-Three Poems of Nguyen Trai, bilingual edition edited and with photographs by Nguyen Duy (Saigon Culture Publisher, 2009.) With Hoang Hung he edited and translated Selected Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (Association Writers of Vietnam, 2009.) Nguyen Do’s poetry and his translations have been appeared in poetry magazines around the United States and the world. In 2005, he received a grant from The Poetry Foundation of New York City “for his contribution to poetry of the world”. He lives in San Francisco area.