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Đặng Thơ Thơ
Đỗ Lê Anh Đào
Phùng Nguyễn
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Đặng Thơ Thơ is a writer, essayist, and author of two collections of short stories The Winter Exhibition (2002) and Possibilities (2014). She plans to publish her forthcoming novel in 2023.
She is co-founder and first editor-in-chief of damau.org (2006-2008) and is currently overseeing creative directions for Da Màu. From 2003-2005 she was on Hợp Lưu Magazine editorial staff. She has over two decades of writing and editing experience in a literary setting. Her works have been published in many Vietnamese magazines and publications including Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Khởi Hành, Thế Kỷ 21, Gió Văn, Chủ Đề, Ăn Mày Văn Chương, Ajar.
From 2002-2004, she served on the Board of Directors as Literature Chairperson for The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA). She works at Garden Grove Unified School District to help develop and translate the Vietnamese-English Immersion Dual Program and Curriculum. She provides presentations and professional training on the Vietnamese language for GGUSD community outreach personnel and community liaisons. Since 2016, she has been with the Union Of Overseas Vietnamese Language Schools – TAVIET to consult on Vietnamese Language-Literature and to provide professional training for teachers.
She is an active member of the LGBTQI community.
Anhdao Le Do is a performance artist, consultant and author. She grew up in Vietnam and moved to the US at age thirteen, later studying Psychobiology at UCLA and working as a counselor and program manager for several non-profit organizations, including the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women and the Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence. Do’s studies in psychobiology led her to become a performance artist, using magic and mentalism as disciplines to study human behavior, on and off stage. Do’s mentalism work has been featured on Scientific American, National Geographic, and Apple. She is sought after as a subject matter expert in deception and perception for consultations on media projects such as the film Focus, starring Will Smith, and Amazon’s series Sneaky Pete. In addition, Do is the co-founder at Da Mau E-Zine and the co-author of Poems of Nguyễn Thúy Hằng, Đỗ Lê Anhdao & Lê Đình Nhất-Lang (Vagabond Press, 2017). She is also the founder, co-owner, and director of Ludus Development, a consulting company that designs immersive training on perception and critical thinking. She has researched and lectured on the topic of deception to a variety of government, military and law enforcement organizations.
Luu Dieu Van was born in Vietnam and migrated to the U.S. at a very young age. She is a prolific translator and is currently co-editor of Da Mau Magazine. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and devotes time between working as a business consultant, project manager, and event planner, doing arts, and volunteering for her charity organization that provides support for underprivileged children. She is an adjunct professor at Santa Ana College and a language instructor at the University of California – Fullerton. She is the author of 47 Minutes After 7 (Van Nghe), M of December (Vagabond Press), Century of Scapegoating (Van Hoc Press), She, Self-Winding (Ugly Duckling Presse), and co-author of The Transparent Greenness of Grass (Tre Publishing House), Poems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan, Nhã Thuyên (Vagabond Press).
Lê Đình Nhất Lang (Nhat-Lang Le)
Nhat-Lang Le was born in 1969 in Saigon, emigrated with his family to France in 1983, and moved to the U.S. in 1985. He has a B.A. in Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a co-author of Poems of Nguyễn Thúy Hằng, Đỗ Lê Anhdao & Lê Đình Nhất-Lang (Vagabond Press, 2017). He is the translator of two of Mai Văn Phấn’s collections Seeds of Night and Day (Page Addie Press, 2013) and Grass Cutting in a Temple Garden (Page Addie Press, 2014). He is a co-translator of Poems of Lưu Diệu Vân, Lưu Mêlan & Nhã Thuyên (Vagabond Press, 2014) and The Selected Poems of Mai Văn Phấn (Publishing House of the Vietnam Writers’ Association, 2015). His Vietnamese poems and translations have appeared in the printed magazines Thế Kỷ 21, Văn Học and Văn, and the literary e-zines Tiền Vệ (tienve.org) and Da Màu (damau.org). He has been on Da Mau’s editorial staff since 2007.
Thúy Đinh graduated with a dual Bachelor of Arts in English and French Literature (with honors), and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia). She’s a practicing attorney and co-editor of the Vietnamese literary e-zine Da Màu, responsible for the magazine’s Nonfiction and Literary Translation Sections. In addition, she is a freelance critic for National Public Radio (NPR), and an editor-at-large for Asymptote Journal – the premium online magazine for world literature in translation founded in 2011. In 2020, she was a writer-in-residence at Northern Virginia’s Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House and Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture. Her essays, reviews, and poetry translations have appeared in NPR Books, NBCThink, Asymptote, Prairie Schooner, RainTaxi Review of Books, Manoa, Rattle, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Santa Fe Broadside, among others. Green Rice, her co-translation of the selected poetry of Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, was published by Curbstone Press in 2005, and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in 2006. In addition, her memoir essay, “Luggage and Shoes,” originally appearing in Once Upon A Dream: Twenty Years of Vietnamese-American Experience (Andrews & McMeel: 1995), was republished for high school classroom use in Asian American Writers (Nextext: 2001).
Her writings can be found at thuydinhwriter.com.
Hoang Chinh (born May 14, 1954) is a Vietnamese poet, novelist and contributor to many literary magazines. He graduated from Saigon Medical School in 1978 and migrated to Canada in 1983. His publications (in Vietnamese) include: Hearing Mother Sighs at Midnight (poems, 1991), The Last Autumn (short stories, 1994), Love Sonata (novel, 2000), A Belated Love Confession (short stories, 2002), No Matter How Many Rivers to Cross (novel, 2003), Writings for Mother Back Home (short stories, 2003), An Excerpt from the Bible (short stories, 2006), Love in Taipei (short stories, 2007), A Belated Love Epistle (novel, 2007), Night, Apiece… (short stories, 2010), The Curse from the Other World (novel, 2019), And Not a Day Did I See My Image (short stories, 2019). Two of his short stories had been broadcasted on BBC World Service Programmes. He is the co-editor of the Vietnamese literary e-zine Da Màu (fiction section), the host of the YouTube channel which presents his short stories, read by himself. He currently lives in Toronto and is a freelance court interpreter.
Nguyen Hoang Nam is a writer based in Orange County, California. A Communications graduate from Cal State Fullterton, his stories and photography have appeared on Nguoi Viet Daily News, The Orange County Register, The San Jose Mercury News, while his short stories, poety and translation in English and Vietnamese have appeared on many print and online literary magazines and journals. He’s also written screenplays for three independent films in the U.S. and Vietnam, one of which he co-produced.
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