Y-Bình is based on the indigenous land of the Pennacook, Abenaki, and Wabanaki Peoples–who have formed a spiritual & physical connection with N’dakinna and maintained the land (aki), water (nibi), flora (lolakwikak) and fauna (awaasak) of a small part what is now called Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Y-Bình Nguyễn (they/she) is a proud daughter of American War in Vietnam refugees, descendent from a rural farming community in An Giang Province, Việt Nam and is currently situated in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Y-Bình’s poetry and prose focuses on eco-resistance sci-fi, transgenerational trauma & healing, critical compassion, queer coming of age love stories, diaspora hustles and bustles, ancestral memory, and visionary fiction. They write to recognize the power of making space for past, present, and future ancestors to heal and build new worlds. They particularly like to find the heroes in the esoteric aunties, shy siblings, and liberated queer cousins—all while unearthing stories of resistance and solidarity.