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Jennifer Nguyen Jennifer Nguyen i(11363128 works by)
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BiographyHistory

Jennifer Ngyuen is dreamer by day and a writer by night. She studied Creative Writing and Japanese at RMIT.

In 2019, Nguyen received a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 winner Ultimo Prize Poetry

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon When I Die Slingshot My Ashes onto the Surface of the Moon Sydney : Subbed In , 2019 16927950 2019 selected work poetry

''Poetry is / can / be anything … everything,' says When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon. She is sleepy, but they cannot sleep. It is 4:44 a.m. loneliness, this restlessness. The soft hue of blue from the TV bathes the room via a 24/7 lo-fi livestream. ‘Poems are troubled into existence’ – When I die, she read that somewhere, but cannot remember where, but it has stayed, it is the underpinning of this book and all that contains with/in/out. Where did these bruises come from? The heart, the brain, the heart, the soul? How do I live? How do I keep on living? I don’t know, is the honest answer. I must, is the honest honest answer.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 joint winner Subbed In Chapbook Prize
Untitled i "Wax melted and puddled underfoot", 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Literary Nillumbik Anthology of Writing 2017 2017; (p. 24-25)
2017 winner Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award Youth Prize
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