Poems & Interviews

2023

diaCRITICS - Interview (May 2023)

The Offing - “pregnant pauses” (April 2023)

The Rumpus - Interview (January 2023)

University of Nebraska Medical Center - Keynote Address (May 2023)

2022

PEN America - Interview (December 2022)

Brooklyn Poets - “ngủ ngon” + Interview (October 2022)

Poetry to Your Ears - Interview (October 2022)

The Minnesota Review - “grief makes a ghost of me” (May 2022)

The Journal - “and what do i get to keep?” (April 2022)

The Journal - “on being chị hai (verse 2)” (April 2022)

The Journal - “pregnant silence” (April 2022)

University of California Davis - Guest Lecture (February 2022)

2021

Variant Literature - “autopsy of war” (October 2021)

Frontier Poetry - “6 women are murdered man murders 6 women” (October 2021)

Muzzle Magazine - “in vietnamese, the word for origin is ‘source of the trunk’” (April 2021)

2020

Hobart - “an immigrant love letter” (December 2020)

perhappened mag - “i develop a skin picking disorder” (December 2020)

Verity La - “i don’t know the word for depression in vietnamese” (November 2020)

Passionately Smashing - Interview (August 2020)

perhappened mag - “i drove you home for the last time” (July 2020)

Parentheses Journal - “i am writing my own national anthem” (June 2020)

KBIA - Interview (May 2020)

Mx. Asian American - Interview (May 2020)

Meniscus Literary Journal - “mute” (May 2020)

Bitter Melon Poetry, stay home diary - “dispatch from quarantine” (March 2020)

Sin Fronteras, Issue 24 - “when your visa expires” (March 2020)

diaCRITICS - Artist Profile (January 2020)

2019

Teen Vogue - Interview (October 2019)

Project Yellow Dress - Interview (June 2019)

Vietnamese Boat People - “Between the Lines” (May 2019)

Portrait - “my father writes from louisiana” (Spring 2019)

Project Yellow Dress - “my father writes from louisiana” (April 2019)

2018

Vassar Student Review - “do you feel your history” (May 2018)

Awards & Fellowships

The Journal - Best of the Net 2023 for “on being chị hai (verse 2) - (February 2o23)

Academy of American Poets x Urban Word NYC - Poetry Coalition Fellow - (September 2022-2023)

DVAN - She Who Has No Master(s) Mentorship Program Semi-Finalist (April 2022)

Palette Poetry - Previous Published Poem Prize Finalist (April 2022)

Write Bloody Publishing - Jack McCarthy Book Prize Winner (February 2022)

Asian-American Writers’ Workshop - 2022 The Margins Fellowship Finalist (January 2022)

Periplus Collective - 2022 Periplus Fellowship Finalist (December 2021)

Frontier Poetry - New Poets Award Finalist (December 2021)

Frontier Poetry - OPEN Finalist (October 2021)

PEN America - 2021 Emerging Voices Fellow (May 2021-October 2021)

Kundiman - Mentorship Lab 2021 Finalist (May 2021)

Palette Poetry - Previously Published Poem Prize Longlist (April 2021)

Parentheses Journal - Best of the Net 2020 Nominee for “i am writing my own national anthem” (July 2020)

Vassar College English Dept. - Beatrice Daw Brown Prize for Poetry (May 2019)

Kimberly Nguyen reads “con ăn chưa”, “cầu nguyện”, and “to you, from another continuum” alongside her PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship cohort with introduction from her fellowship mentor, Paul Tran.

Kimberly reads "how to read this collection", "open letter to the my lai massacre", "creme brûlée", "my father writes from louisiana", and "connectivity" at Vassar College on May 8, 2019.
Kimberly Nguyen performs "where are you from" at Vassar College. This poem traces a series of Vietnamese words back to their colonial roots, and asks serious questions about national identity in the face of 1000 years of colonial history.
Kimberly Nguyen performs "after my first mfa program rejection" at Vassar College.

Kimberly Nguyen performs "memory graves" at Vassar College. This poem was inspired by a show by Sarah and Phil Kaye in Brooklyn that she attended.