Uyên Nguyên is a poet and songwriter. He was one of the founding members of Tập Họp, the first Vietnamese-language literary journals in Australia. He has also been a contributor to many Vietnamese literary journals worldwide. His poems have been included in such anthologies as Hai Mươi Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1995 [Twenty Years of Vietnamese Literature Overseas 1975-1995] (California, 1995); Selected Works in Vietnamese from the Vietnamese-Australian Writers (Sydney, 1997), 26 Nhà Thơ Việt Nam Ðương Ðại [26 Contemporary Vietnamese Poets] (California, 2002), and Tiền Vệ Anthology No.1 (2007). A political refugee from Vietnam, he is now living and working in Sydney. He writes critical essays under the pen name, Dieu De.
