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Hoa Nguyen (born 1967) is an American poet.

Born in V?nh Long, near Saigon, in 1967, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington D.C. area and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco. She now lives in Austin, Texas where she leads the Teachers & Writers Collaborative's Virtual Poetry Workshop.

She co-edits Skanky Possum, a book imprint and journal, with her husband Dale Smith, and curates a monthly reading series in Austin. Her poems have been published in various journals and in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman House, 1998). She is the author of Dark (1998), Parrot Drum (Leroy, 2000), Your Ancient See Through (Sub Press, 2002) and Red Juice (Effing, 2005).

An example of her most notable work is MEAN SUDDENLY BITCH WOMAN, praised for its subtle attack on man's virtue in a soulless society.

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