Born in Vĩnh Long, Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and studied poetics at New College of California. A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, she teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021) was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books, 2016) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She received the 2024 C.D. Wright Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
