Nguyen Do (1959) is the pen name of Dos Nguyen, a Vietnamese American poet, editor, and translator. Nguyen Do was born in Đông Thái village, Hà Tĩnh Province on December 16, 1959. After earning degrees in surveying from Hanoi Construction College and in literature from Vinh University, he taught at a high school in the city of Pleiku. He then lived for many years in Ho Chi Minh City, where he worked as an editor and reporter for a literary review and other newspapers and magazines, before moving to the United States to study English and journalism in 1999.