Diana Nguyen
Winter 2026 | Poetry
It’s the bottom of my heart
Syzygy
let mom worry about it
Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures and Ghost Of, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and her video work has been exhibited at ICA Pittsburgh. A Kundiman and MacDowell fellow, and member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Randolph College and the University of Pittsburgh, where she directs the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writer Series and is an Interim Director of the Writing Program.