Hoa Nguyen is a poet and educator. Her books include Red Juice: Poems 1998 - 2008 and the Griffin Prize-nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest collection of poems, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure was a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor’s Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She currently serves as a Visiting Practitioner for Toronto Metropolitan University and Co-Chair of Writing at Bard MFA. She’s an Aquarius and a Fire Horse.