Featured Reader
Featured Reader
for February 13, 2026
Note: As of September 12th 2025, Alina is being rescheduled for a later date, due to illness. Saddiq Dzukogi will be filling in for her.
reading at 6 PM.
1309 R streets: west side of St. Marks on the Campus.
Refreshments are served beginning at 5:30 PM, feel free to sit, veg out, study or visit with a friend.
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Alina Nguyễn was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her B.A. in English Literature and Asian American Studies from the California State University-Northridge and her M.F.A in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the California State University-Long Beach, where she was awarded the California State University-Long Beach Gerald Locklin Writing Prize. She is the author of the risograph-printed chapbook,Before There Were More Ghosts, from Tomorrow Today.
She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with interests in Poetics, Ethnic Literature, Queer Theory, and Printmaking. She strives to be a Professor ... and possibly a Hot Dog Cart Owner as well.
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