Terry Nguyễn writes essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry.
Terry’s criticism & reportage have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Boston Review, Los Angeles and Cleveland Review of Books, New York Magazine, The Believer, The Nation, Vice, and Washington Post, among other publications. She is an incoming MFA poetry candidate at Columbia University.
She is interested in: formally inventive literature, interdisciplinary art, Asian American femininity, eroticism, voids, trauma, identity crises & identity as performance.
Her inbox is open to freelance editorial work of all kinds.
Selected Writing
Observations / Essays
On apartment-hunting (2025, Flaunt)
Good Bad Mothers: On movies about moms (2024, Vague Blue)
On cinema’s cyborg nostalgia (2024, Vague Blue)
On the set design of “Good Bones,” James Ijames’ play about gentrification (2024, Curbed)
On Hồ Chí Minh, historical autofiction, and Joseph Andras’s Faraway the Southern Sky (2024, The Nation)
On the Vietnamese variety show Paris By Night (2024, Still Alive)
Writing Blue: On blue literature and intertextuality (2024, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly)
On Agnes Martin and ekphrastic poetry (2024, Momus)
On Bennett Miller’s AI-generated photography exhibit (2023, Dirt)
On Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and AI pastiche (2023, Dirt)
Interviews / Reviews
Profile: Getting Existential with Ken Leung (2025, HighSnobiety)
On Noah Schneiderman’s show, “The Big Empty” (2025, Office)
On celebrity photographer Nadia Lee Cohen (2025, Arcade)
On artist Sin Wai Kin’s exhibition, “The End of Time!” (2025, Family Style)
On Charlotte Shane’s memoir An Honest Woman (2024, Vague Blue)
On painter Huong Dodinh’s exhibition, “TRANSCENDENCE” (2024, Brooklyn Rail)
On artist Catalina Ouyang’s show, “Trick” (2024, Asian American Arts Alliance)
Episode Recaps: HBO’s The Sympathizer (2024, Vulture)
On R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface (2023, Cleveland Review of Books)
On Katherine Dunn’s Toad (2022, Los Angeles Review of Books)
Poetry
Romanticism: 12 Fictional Shorts (2024, No Bells)
Inland Empress (2024, Sarka #2)
Aspen Eyes & The Secret (2023, Iterant Magazine #11)
Two Nudes (2023, Poetry Project)
Untitled (2023, Stanchion Zine) *print only