Nguyen Do

Nguyen Do is the pen name of Dos Nguyen, a Vietnamese American poet, editor, and translator.
Nguyen Do was born in Đông Thái village, Hà Tĩnh Province on December 16, 1959. After earning degrees in surveying from Hanoi Construction College and in literature from Vinh University, he taught at a high school in the city of Pleiku. He then lived for many years in Ho Chi Minh City, where he worked as an editor and reporter for a literary review and other newspapers and magazines, before moving to the United States to study English and journalism in 1999.
Nguyen has published thirteen books. His poetry collections include The Fish Wharf and The Autumn Evening, "The Empty Space", and New Darkness. With Paul Hoover, he edited and translated Black Dog, Black Night, an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese poetry, 12+3 selected poetry of Thanh Thao, bilingual edition edited, and Returning to Con Son Selected poetry of Nguyen Trai, bilingual edition edited and with photographs and poems in six-eight Vietnamese traditional version by poet Nguyen Duy. He also edited and translated the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and others into Vietnamese. Nguyen Do's forthcoming project is a bilingual Vietnamese-English translation of “The Story of Kieu”, also known as “The Tale of Kieu”. The project is a collaboration between Nguyen Do, American poet Paul Hoover, and Harvard professor John Stauffer, who provides the afterword.
Nguyen's poetry and his translations have appeared in many anthologies including Litfinder, and in poetry magazines around the United States and the world. In 2005, he received a grant from The Poetry Foundation of New York City “for his contribution to the poetry of the world”. In 2016 he was chosen one of the five best Southeast Asian poets. He lives in the San Francisco Bay region of California.