Nhã Thuyên was born in 1986 in Việt Nam and works as a writer and editor in Hà Nội. Her most recent books are bất\ \tuẫn: những hiện diện [tự-] vắng trong thơ Việt published in English as un\ \martyred: [self-]vanishing presences in Vietnamese poetry (Roofbook, USA, 2019) and moon fevers (Tilted Axis Press, UK, 2019). With Kaitlin Rees, she founded AJAR in 2014, a bilingual literary journal and independent press. Her next book of poetry vị nước (taste of waters) is waiting to see the moon.