Welcome to a poetry reading in the Elliston Poetry Room by award-winning poets Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok.

A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow, and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s). She's received an NEA fellowship and awards from the 92Y "Discovery" Poetry and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery contests.

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets and an Assistant Professor in the MFA at the University of California Davis. A former high school physics teacher, she has been a MacDowell Fellow, Kenyon Review Fellow, and Lambda Literary Fellow.

This reading is free and open to the public. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library on the Uptown Campus, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown campus.