Diana Khoi Nguyen

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Diana Khoi Nguyen was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the author of Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024) and Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Colorado Book Award.

A recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize and a Kundiman Fellow, Khoi Nguyen is a core faculty member in the Randolph College low-residency MFA program and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.