Faculty Presentation: Hieu Minh Nguyen, Lydi Conklin, Ron Amato
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading with writers Hieu Minh Nguyen and Lydi Conklin, and artist Ron Amato.
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About Our Speakers
Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of three collections of poetry, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle, and Staying Still, forthcoming from Tin House Books in 2026. Among his honors, Nguyen has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow from the Poetry Foundation. Originally from the Twin Cities, Nguyen now lives in Oakland and is a lecturer at Stanford University.
Lydi Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Fulbright, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, Emory, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and VQR. They are an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Ron Amato is a Professor in the Photography and Related Media Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In addition to his extensive career in commercial photography, Amato has published three monographs, and his work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. His most recent book, Artists of Provincetown (2024), is a collection of eighty-four portraits of artists with strong connections to Provincetown, Massachusetts, created over an eight-year period. This work culminated in an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in the summer of 2024. Amato holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and an MFA in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University.
