"Second generation" "Portrait of a Woman in Bed" "Hokku Written at a Food Market" & "Hokku Spoken Before a Winter Sleep" by Tim Thiện Nguyễn

Tim Thiện Nguyễn (he/him) is a Vietnamese American scientist whose Ph.D. research interrogates how genes shape our face in the womb. He has published through Diode, bath magg, and the Iowa Chapbook Prize; additional work is forthcoming in Defunkt Magazine's Surreal Confessional Anthology. You may find him doom-scrolling on Twitter/X as @7imng or Bluesky as @7imnguyen.bsky.social.