Reading Series - Diana Khoi Nguyen & Cindy Juyoung Ok
The Creative Writing Reading Series is proud to host poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok for a public reading and discussion. All are welcome! A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell fellow and member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s). She's received an NEA fellowship and awards from the 92Y "Discovery" Poetry and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery contests. She teaches in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. A MacDowell Fellow, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award winner, and former high school physics teacher, she is an assistant professor in the University of California, Davis MFA.
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