[1] A graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, his writing has appeared in PBS NewsHour, POETRY magazine, BuzzFeed, Poetry London, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Muzzle Magazine, The Paris-American, the Indiana Review, and more.
[3] Nguyen is the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry, a Kundiman fellow, a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, winner of the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts, and the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center.
He has been a recipient of the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Summer Residency,[4] and has participated in many other residencies and fellowships - including the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
He was a 2019-2021 Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.
[6] His second collection, Not Here, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press.