Nguyen Tien Hoang is a Melbourne-based poet, translator and poetry editor. His poems appeared in the Saturday Age, HEAT, Cordite, Peril, Black Inc Publishing anthologies of Best Australian Poems, Poetry International website and Contemporary Asian-Australian Poets anthology [Puncher & Wattmann, 2013]. With Vagabond Press he has published Years, Elegy - a chapbook in the Rare Objects series and edited the fourth volume in the Asia Pacific Poetry series. Nguyen Tien Hoang under the pen name Thuong Quan over thirty has published a wide range of essays, poems and short stories on major Vietnamese literary journals inside and outside Vietnam including Van, Van Hoc, Hop Luu, tienve, damau; a collection of poems Ngoai Giac Ngu (Beyond Sleeps) by Van Nghe Publishing, California; and Watermarks on talawas. He was poetry editor of Hop Luu (Confluence) and is currently on the editorial panel of damau.org. Born in 1956 in Danang, Vietnam. Arrived in Australia in 1974 under the Colombo Plan scholarship. Worked as broadcaster for Radio Australia and an Information Technology business system analyst in Telstra and IBM. Australian poetry -- 21st century. | Australian