Bio
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of two collections of poetry, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Press, 2014), and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which was named the winner of the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. A recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Hieu is also a 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Originally from the Twin Cities, Hieu now lives in Oakland.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Creative Writing
2022-23 Courses
- Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Spr) - Intermediate Poetry Writing
ENGLISH 192 (Win) - Reading and Writing Poetry
ENGLISH 92 (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Poetry as Time Travel
ENGLISH 150F (Spr)
2020-21 Courses
- Levinthal Tutorial in Nonfiction
ENGLISH 191L (Win) - Levinthal Tutorial in Poetry
ENGLISH 192L (Win)
- Poetry as Time Travel