Hoa Nguyen Poetry Reading
Hoa Nguyen Poetry Reading
As part of the Georgia K. Johnston Writer-in-Residence Program, SLU's Department of English will host poet Hoa Nguyen from February 24-28, 2025. During her visit she will meet and workshop with undergraduate and graduate students.
Nguyen will read from her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in room 142 of Adorjan Hall.
All are welcome to join; admission is free of charge.
Author biography
Hoa Nguyen is the author of several books, including Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor鈥檚 Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Nguyen lives in Toronto with her family, where she serves as a visiting practitioner for the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University and as a mentor for writers in the graduate programs at Guelph University and the University of Toronto. She is a member of She Who Has No Masters (SWHNM), a Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic transnational collective of cis, trans, and nonbinary women/womyn, and founding mentor of the SWHNM mentorship. In 2019, her body of work was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award.