Linh Dinh

Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: Đinh Linh, born 1963, Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer.

He posts travel essays and social commentary regularly on his Substack page entitled Postcards from the End.

Dinh came to the US in 1975, lived in Philadelphia and in 2018 is moving back to Vietnam.

He was a 1993 Pew Fellow.

He writes a column for the far-right website The Unz Review.

His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, The Best American Poetry 2007, and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present.

He spent 2002–2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo.

He was a visiting faculty member at University of Pennsylvania.

The Village Voice picked his Blood and Soap as one of the best books of 2004.

Translated into Italian by Giovanni Giri, it is published in Italy as Elvis Phong è Morto.

In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England.

His first novel, Love Like Hate, was published in October 2010 and won the Balcones Fiction Prize.

From 2015–2016, Dinh was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, and five books of poems: All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Borderless Bodies, Jam Alerts, and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy.