Y-Bình Nguyễn
writer | artist | educator
Welcome! I am a Lawrence, MA, USA based writer & artist (my pronouns are they or she). My writing focuses on transgenerational trauma & healing, critical compassion, queer coming of age love stories, diaspora hustles and bustles, eco-resistance sci-fi, ancestral memory, and visionary fiction. The forms I write in currently are poetry, short stories, novels, and picture books.
I also have over ten years of experience in ceramics and have recently started painting. Get comfy, stay a little and explore my work for as long as you'd like! Have fun~
Biography
Y-Bình Nguyễn (she/they) is a proud daughter of American War in Vietnam refugees, descendent from a rural farming community in An Giang, Việt Nam, and situated in Lawrence, Massachusetts. They are currently the Literary Curator & Program Director at El Taller, Co-Founder & Literary Editor at Exposed Brick Literary Magazine, and Hai Bá Nguyễn's ceramic artist.
Y-Binh’s poetry and prose focuses on the themes of transgenerational trauma & healing, critical compassion, queer coming of age love stories, diaspora hustles and bustles, eco-resistance sci-fi, ancestral memory, and visionary fiction.
As a passionate educator with a praxis of communal learning, one of Y-Binh’s favorite places in the world to teach and learn is Mamelodi, South Africa. On sunny days, you can find them relearning how to grow food and cooking with their mẹ, teaching ceramic classes in The Garden, expanding their collection of locally-made art made by creatives of color, and figuring out how to be the best role model for her younger sisters (Bảo Trân and pup Nieves).
Performance Gallery
Writing
forthcoming
from seeds to marketplaces, 2nd Edition Print
published
"phở" in Homology Lit- issue seven
"Boundless Land" in diaCRITICS - Out of the Margins, Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network & Exposed Brick Literary Magazine – ISSUE TWO
"why my mom gambles" in Project Yellow Dress
"máy bay" at 16th Annual Bread & Roses Heritage Festival & in Exposed Brick Literary Magazine – ISSUE ONE
"Cultural Studies" and "an exception" in Harvard’s Freedom School Magazine
"xin lỗi/cảm ơn" in Red Pocket Press’s Queer Lunar New Year Zine
run( )away in Vănguard Zine
listen
" Boundless Land" Audiogram, live recording from Exposed Brick Literary Magazine ISSUE TWO Launch Party created by the Essex County Community Foundation for the Creative County Initiative.
Contact
For acquisition of any forthcoming work, please reach out to Y-Bình's agent: Tricia Lawrence at Erin Murphy Literary Agency.
You can reach out via email for bookings.
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Thank you
I appreciate your support on this writing journey. I will be in touch when your book is ready!
from seeds to marketplaces
Y-Bình's first collection of poetry.
Available exclusively at El Taller!
Cover art by Danthanh Trinh & hand-lettering by Bảo Trân Nguyễn. Featured poems by Nicole Morris, JTT, ole, and Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos, & Kaira Lopez. Published by All Prose Publishing.
2nd Edition Print
Printed in Lawrence, MA
Perfect Bound, 170 pages
Coming 2022
events
available prints
Currently not taking commissions,
but thank you for thinking of me.
projects
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