CHRISTIAN NGUYEN LANGWORTHY

Cicada Song
Sons Without Fathers

Born Nguyen Van Phuong in Viet Nam in 1967 to a Vietnamese prostitute mother and an unknown father, Christian Nguyen Langworthy was adopted by American parents in April 1975. As a young Vietnamese American poet, Langworthy is completing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Columbia University. Geography of War is his first book of poetry to be published.