The Chickadees: Collected Poems

The author was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1975, the North Communists defeated the South Army and took over South Viernam when she was stil in high school. In 1981, she left Vietnam to come to the United States to reunite with her mother in Maryland. In 1990, she married and moved to Virginia with her husband. She got her B.A. in 1999 at Geroge Mason University.

Hongvan Nguyen was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1975, the North Communists defeated the South Army and took over South Vietnam when she was still in high school. In 1981, she left Vietnam to come to the United States to reunite with her mother in Sykesville, Maryland. In 1985, she got her first college degree, an A.A. degree in Computer/Data Processing from Catonsville Community College. In 1990, she got married and moved to Arlington, Virginia to live with her husband. In 1999, she went back to college to obtain her B.A. degree in English with a concentration in poetry and a minor in philosophy at George Mason University. Most of her poetic works were published by the International Library of Poetry, the Noble House and the Famous Poets Society in their anthologies.