Titi Nguyen

Writer & Dancer

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Spring 2023

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Contact Info

Website: www.titinguyen.net

BIOGRAPHY

Titi Nguyen is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who explores love, identity, labor, and belief systems through the dynamics of desire, power, and shame. Her narratives reflect the tension of living between borders and cultures, and her characters navigate personal and public landscapes of loneliness and landlessness. Titi’s writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New York Times, Tin House, Paris Review Daily, Witness, and other magazines and podcasts. She received the Katherine Min Fellowship at MacDowell and Crab Orchard Review's Feature Award in Literary Nonfiction, and her work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers Conference, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook. She earned her BA at Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA at Bennington College. Born in Vietnam, Titi lives in Brooklyn, New York. She loves a good ghost story.

PROJECT

While at Nawat Fes, Titi Nguyen will be working on her hybrid novel about freedom, labor, and love. In the ancient medina of Fes, Titi will contemplate the effects of a rapidly changing world. Her book asks: what endures, and what is ephemeral? Titi explores the polarizing forces and dualities that divide but also connect us to each other. With intent to manipulate and integrate such narrow binaries, she’ll play with origin myths, Jungian archetypes, circadian rhythms, etc. Intrigued by the global shift from political, religious, and societal structures to personal systems of faith, Titi looks forward to studying the guiding principles and rituals of Islam alongside Berber astrology's own unique language of heavenly bodies and their ancient roles as maps, timelines, and teachers. This writing project serves to launch multimedia projects. With that vision in mind, she is thrilled for the opportunities to experience and capture the daily/eternal + mundane/cosmic ordered beauty and chaos of prismatic Fes.