Root Fractures

Root Fractures excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives. “‘There is nothing that is not music for this poet,” says poet Terrance Hayes.

Diana Khoi Nguyenn’s debut poetry collection Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest and received the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Kundiman fellow and member of the Vietnamese diasporic artist collective She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen’s other honors include awards from the 92Y “Discovery” Poetry Contest, Key West Literary Seminars, and Academy of American Poets. She teaches creative writing at Randolph College’s Low-Residency MFA and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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