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Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen is a poet, community artist, activist and educator, born in Vietnam and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. She attended the MFA program in Creative Writing at Mills College in Oakland, where she won the Mary Merritt Henry Prize in Poetry and Ardella Mills Literary Composition Prize in Creative Non-Fiction. Her numerous publications has appeared in AS IS: A Collection of Visual and Literary Works by Vietnamese American Artists and Troubling Borders, An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora, Asian Pacific American Journal, There Journal, Nha Magazine, the Vietnamese Artists Collective anthology, Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) anthology and Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women. Founder of the Pomelo Press, she created self-published and hand bound artists books. Her accomplishments include being an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum and Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook, alumna of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), working board member of Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and creative member of Vietnamese Artists Collective. She is a presenter for the PBS/MELSA library series called "The Vietnam War: 360" artist-in-residence for the Floating Library 2018 and is a Lecturer in St. Catherine University.