Diana Khoi Nguyen

Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poems, prose, and multimedia work have appeared widely in magazines and journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and PEN America, among others. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA and elsewhere.

A MacDowell fellow and member of the Vietnamese diasporic artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s), Nguyen is the founding editor of the literary arts journal, 3 Sisters, which publishes work within and between genres. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence at Brown University, and in 2024, she was an author-in-residence at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to teaching at Pitt, she has served as a mentor for writers of color in the Periplus mentorship program and has taught at the following summer workshops: McCormack Writing Center (formerly the Tin House Writers' Workshop), Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and Southampton Writers Conference. Nguyen has been core faculty in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College since 2020.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses:

Introduction to Poetry

Poetry Workshop

Senior Seminar in Poetry

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

MFA Courses:

Poetry Workshop

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

Publishing Practicum

Intro to the MFA and Writing Life

Life Outside the MFA