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


  • Lecturer, Creative Writing

2024-25 Courses


All Publications


  • Increased [18F]FDG uptake of radiation-induced giant cells: a single-cell study in lung cancer models npj Imaging Das, N., Nguyen, H. T., Lu, W., Natarajan, A., Khan, S., Pratx, G. 2024; 2: 1-10