Hieu Minh Nguyen

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Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet from Minnesota and the author of Staying Still (Tin House, 2026) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018). 

In May 2023, Nguyen served as Guest Editor of the Poem-a-Day series. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Nguyen is a lecturer at Stanford University and lives in Oakland.