Thanh-Tam Nguyen studies at High School for Gifted Students in Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam. She has been working as a translator for Vietnamese directors, multidisciplinary artists, and curators. Her work has appeared in Cathartic Literary Magazine, GENCONTROLZ. She is the director's assistant in Antigone- m Mù, an Antigone's renewed play, and spends most time practicing observations on communal spaces to incubate art performance ideas. She is currently translating a full-length film screenplay.

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A Lit Match to Burn What Your Country Doesn’t Remember

By THANH-TAM NGUYEN

i try to pluck my cô dì chú bác from / their endless dreams. their breaths, / smelled of newly-damned artilleries, / their mouths, stained with tiết canh red-bright.