In this generative writing workshop, Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen will lead participants in writing zines that move towards the way love and legacy permeate through gaps, fragments, and stillness. We will use mentor texts by Theresa Hak Kyung, Kimiko Hahn, and other writers. Followed by the workshop, Susan and Joshua will have a reading from their books, and sign any copies that folks purchase.
6:30-7:30 Workshop
7:30-8: Author Reading
8-8:30: Meet & Greet / Book Signing
Joshua Nguyen is the author of Come Clean (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the Writers' League of Texas Discovery Award, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks, American Lục Bát for My Mother (Bull City Press, 2021) and Hidden Labor & The Naked Body (Sundress Publications, 2023). He is a Vietnamese-American writer, a collegiate national poetry slam champion (CUPSI), and a native Houstonian. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, Tin House, Sundress Academy For The Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has been published in Wildness, The Texas Review, Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere. He is a humor editor for The Offing Mag, the Kundiman South co-chair, a bubble tea connoisseur, and loves a good pun. He received his MFA/PhD from The University of Mississippi. He currently teaches at Tufts University.
Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Association of Asian American Studies, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared or are forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Tin House, Diagram, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the AZ Commission on the Arts, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and the 2022 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review, she currently serves as the senior editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review.
