Binh Nguyen was born in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, and is a political exile to the USA. A former student of literature and philosophy, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow and a George Starbuck Fellow. Now living in New York City, she is working on her first poetry collection, As Though We Are One. More information can be found at maythefirst.net.