Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen is an artist, songwriter, touring musician, and producer based in Oakland, California. Her latest album, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s Temple, was released in May of 2020.

Thao Nguyen

Features

Song and Dance

You know, I think these days we would call it a mild stroke . . . yes, I think your dad had a mild stroke. Could that happen from […]

IN Spring 2022

Winter 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

Winter 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

Winter 2022

Thao Nguyen

Song and Dance

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...