Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest, later winning the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and being listed as a finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to winning the 92Y "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Contest, she is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver.
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.