Rea Visiting Writer Dian Khoi Nguyen Poetry Reading

Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of two poetry collections, RootFractures (Scribner, 2024) and Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. She is also the author of the chaplet Unless (Belladonna, 2019), which received the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Colorado Book Award. Her video work has recently been exhibited at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art. Nguyen is a Kundiman fellow and member of the Vietnamese artist collective She Who Has No Master(s). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, she currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.