Thomas V. Nguyen is a medical student at Texas A&M University College of Medicine. He graduated from Columbia University with an MS in Narrative Medicine and studied neuroscience and poetry during his undergraduate years at UT Austin. His poetry has been featured in Frontier Poetry, Nashville Review, Tinderbox Poetry, and Bellevue Literary Review, among others.

Books by Thomas V. Nguyen:

Other poems on the web by Thomas V. Nguyen:
"mythologies"
"communion"
Twelve poems
"I due cuscini"

About Permutations of a Self:

"Haunted by absence and loss, yet healed by aspiration and love, the voice of Permutations of a Self takes us on a journey across oceans, beyond telephone wires, and deep into drifting snow, ever in search of what it means to be human. Nguyen's poems are shape-shifting, kaleidoscopic, dreamlike, and ultimately transformative: estrangement becomes familiar, distance is what binds us close, and our many selves are made whole. Here is a fine new poet for whom, according to his 'first law of thermodynamics,' 'there is no birth or death here/only stories of enduring.'"
—Rafael Campo

"Thomas V. Nguyen's poetry combines a warm sensibility with acute introspection. His writing warmly embraces childhood and family, with a voice that announces a new poetic presence. He is a young talent at present, but I predict that he will soon join William Carlos Williams and Rafael Campo as one of our premier poet-doctors."
—Brian A. Bremen