Hoa Nguyen is a poet, educator, and member of the collective She Who Has No Masters, a project of multivoiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces, and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. Her books include Red Juice: Poems 1998–2008 (Wave Books, 2014), the Griffin Prize–nominated Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books, 2016), and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021), a finalist for a 2021 National Book Award, the General Governor’s Literary Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Hoa has lived in Canada since 2011. In 2019 her body of work was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature. She teaches poetry and creative writing as an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.