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Susan Nguyen
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Author of Dear Diaspora (Prairie Schooner Book Prize, 2021)

Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review

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Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social · Nov 17
My poetry book, Dear Diaspora, explores the intersections of girlhood and Vietnamese diaspora💚

It follows Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist.
Susan Nguyen holds a copy of Dear Diaspora in front of the poetry bookshelves at a bookstore.
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Happy Publication day to @susanpoet.bsky.social Dear Diaspora ✨
Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora

www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/dear-diaspora
Graphic that reads on top: Happy publication day! An image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen is held up in focus in front of a bookshelf of books which are out of focus. Image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen on top stacks of other books in a bookshop.
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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SAVE THE DATE — Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine. Sunday September 28th from 7-9pm UK (brunch time in the US) | online & in person at The Common Press!
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September 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Couldn’t remember the word for draino earlier and called it plumbing juice🧃
August 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Putting a duvet cover back on your duvet has gotta be one of the most demoralizing things ever
July 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.
Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…
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July 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The other day a waiter misheard a friend’s order and said “sorry I can’t hear bc I’m a man” and I’m still thinking abt it
July 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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the87press.bsky.social
The wonderfully talented Susan Nguyen launched Dear Diaspora at our last Mushaira in Cafe OTO. Find her signed copies Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books 📚

Otherwise you can pre-order the UK edition of @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x

#the87press #indiepress
July 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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When three of our lovely authors in London ✨ They signed some copies at @HousmansBooks and Round Table Books 📚

Pre-order @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x

Check out @sabadilla15.bsky.social's Self-Mythology, and @sarahali.bsky.social's Theophanies: the87press.co.uk/shop
July 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I’ve got 2 poems in the latest APR issue, including the title poem of book 2!
ampoetryreview.bsky.social The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social · Jun 30
🆕 Our July/August issue is in mailboxes, on newsstands, and online now!
Check out fresh new work from Richard Siken, Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett and many more at aprweb.org, and grab the in-print version here: loom.ly/XfjohDw
July 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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the87press.bsky.social
We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September!

This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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COVER REVEAL! Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen (@susanpoet.bsky.social), coming September 2025 with the87press

This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.

#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublisher
May 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Our annual AWP offsite, Growing From Our Roots, featuring debut Asian writers will be on 3/27!

Between now and then, donate to the Armory Arts Fire Relief Fund or The Sameer Project for a chance to win books by our featured readers!
March 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Some recent shadows
Shadows on black street in front of big green trees. Shadow of a tree on a tan house.
February 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest is now open for submissions!

Send us your work, win money!

Submit here: haydensferryreview.com/haydens-ferr...

Entry fee is $23/$15 with a print/digital subscription, but if that's a barrier, stay tuned for a short free subs window later this month!
Photos of the contest judges over a dark blue and gold background, with white and gold text announcing the contest name, prize, and window.
February 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Aren't you
Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.
January 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Hi lovelies, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social is now on here! Pls go follow for all things HFR 🦋 🦋 🦋
December 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Sending this around again tonight
December 6, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Did a class visit recently for Dear Diaspora and a student said my book opened up dialogue bw them and their family abt diaspora and immigration and as a writer, this feels like a blessing ✨
December 6, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Today a student said my class was a ~haven for in-depth emotional and analytical conversations~. I had a pizza party for my editors. I picked these big leaves. The semester is (finally) almost over.
Three big yellow leaves and one big green leaf on a wicker table, which is half in shadow.
December 4, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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ICYMI I have a new poem on and toward 🌀 desire, spectacle, mess 🌀 up at the @aaww-nyc.bsky.social !!
Today is a good day, the first in a while, and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire. Open all the windows and let April in. It’s musty as hell in here. Let the sun take me by the shoulders and kiss the grooves of my collarbones. I’m alive and I have an appetite for longing. So let them all in: the birds, the strays. Even the things that buzz in my ear. A fly dizzies past, languid, then promptly forgets the open window. He knocks again and again, louder and louder, against the warm glass, looking for escape. God, to make a nuisance of my want until it’s all anyone hears. To make my yearning known as I circle a room. I admire this lust for life, so I let him live. I fan him through the window with a dust rag like I’m waving goodbye to a lover. When I walk by the week-old box of oranges, I cause a commotion. A shadow of fruit flies lifts then disperses. A dead one floats in my glass. The smell of rot sharpens each day, rings of blue mold appearing one by one until whole oranges turn ashen. Let them. Desire is not without casualty. I’m amazed that every insect that finds its way in makes it to water– the silverfish in the sink, the gnat hovering over the dripping faucet. It’s a superpower. A heightened nose for that which they cannot live without. I’d be lying if I said I never drowned them. Sometimes, I want spectacle. I drop each silver orange down the drain and watch the spores erupt.
November 30, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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My wonderful AAPI lit students organized a watch party for Everything Everywhere All At Once tonight and brought snacks and are now playing games to come down from this very good but very intense movie and this is giving me so much joy 🥹
November 27, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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"Today is a good day, the first in a while,/ and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire."

Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Flight Path" by Susan Nguyen, in #TheMargins!
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November 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Seeing the first step in an ~easy~ recipe is to chop onions
Cartoon dog walking away on two legs
November 26, 2024 at 1:01 AM