Terry Nguyễn is a poet, translator, and editor from Garden Grove, CA. She works across genres—including essays, arts criticism, photography and video—to explore how narrative, memory, and identity are constructed. She is the assistant editor of the 2026 Are.na Annual, and has recent essays in Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, IMAGE Journal, Playboy, and others. Her poetry is forthcoming in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory and Asia Art Archive.