Tanh is a Vietnamese refugee who came to the U.S. nine years ago.
He is a local Vietnamese journalist, a poet, and a story writer.
He loves writing poetry since high school in Vietnam. He worked for
U.S. Special Forces as an interpreter in '60. Later he joined into
the South Vietnam Armed Forces as an Interpreter for U.S. Advisors, the
5th Armor Cavalry Squadron (ARVN). When the North Vietnamese Army
overran the South, he burned his manuscripts. His pen name is Phuong
Dien Nguyen. When he came to The US, he starts writing again
for Vietnamese local magazines and newspapers for fun. Over the past
years, he sent his poems to be published in three anthologies by Quills
Book, and recently he sent one of them to The International Poetry Hall
of Fame. He was born April 18, 1938 in Saigon.
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