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Kimberly Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American poet, originally from Omaha, Nebraska but is now living in New York City. She is recent graduate of Vassar College, where she studied English and Russian Studies and was a recipient of a Beatrice Daw Brown Prize for Poetry in 2019. She was a 2021 Emerging Voices Fellow at PEN America and is currently a 2022-2023 Poetry Coalition Fellow. Her poetry has been featured in diaCRITICS, Hobart, Muzzle Magazine, The Minnesota Review, perhappened mag, and others. Her poetry collection, ghosts in the stalks, was a #3 bestseller on Amazon in Asian-American poetry.

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