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Hoa Nguyen is the author of six full-length books of poetry including Violet Energy Ingots which received a Griffin Prize nomination and A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure which was named as a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Governor General’s Award, and the National Book Award. In 2019, she was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, also known as the “American Nobel”, and in 2024 she received C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, an endowed annual award bestowed by a nomination process. Hoa is member of the She Who Has No Masters collective, a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces, and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora. an Aquarius, and a Fire Horse.
Dale Martin Smith is a poet, editor, literary scholar, and professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of the poetry collections The Size of Paradise, Flying Red Horse, Slow Poetry in America, Black Stone, and American Rambler. Smith’s scholarly contributions include Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 and two edited editions, An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson. His essays and poetry have appeared in Poetry, The Walrus, LA Review of Books, Boston Review, and Lana Turner. With Hoa Nguyen, he edited Skanky Possum, a literary zine and book imprint, from 1998 to 2004. His essay collection, That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making
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