Linh Dinh (Wong Fellow 2005) was born and raised in Vietnam. He moved to the US at the age of eleven, and returned to Saigon for two and a half years in 1999.  He studied painting for three years at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.He showed his paintings, wrote and read his poems at literary venues around Philadelphia, and in1991, he co-founded The Drunken Boat, a bimonthly art and literary journal. In 1993 he won a Pew fellowship. He also wrote art reviews for the New Art Examiner, and acted as critic-in-residence for Art In General in NYC. Returning to Saigon to live in 1999, his poems, stories and translations began to appear in avant-garde journals such as Sulfur, Chicago Review, New American Writing and VOLT, with poems and stories translated into Vietnamese. He has published two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, and two collections of poetry, All Around What Empties Out and American Tatts. He teaches poetry at Fairleigh Dickinson College, New Jersey and Bard College, New York.

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Watch Linh Dinh read his poetry at the Holloway Series of Poetry at Berkeley University