Hieu Minh Nguyen is a child of immigrants. He is the author of This Way to the Sugar 
(Write Bloody Press, 2014). Hieu is a Kundiman fellow, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry magazine, Guernica, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. His second collection of poetry​, Not Here, ​is forthcoming on Coffee House Press in spring of 2018. He lives in Minneapolis.