Nyugen Quang Thieu

Nyugen Quang Thieu has published four books of poems in Vietnam, as well as novels and short stories. In 1993, he won the Vietnam Writers’ Association National Award for poetry. He lives in Hanoi, where he is the editor-in-chief of
Van Nghe Tre. The Women Carry River Water, a bilingual edition of his poems co-translated with Martha Collins, will be published by the University of Massaschusetts Press in May 1997.