{"id":86096,"date":"2008-09-21T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damau.org\/editorial-board"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:25:09","slug":"editorial-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/damau.org\/en\/editorial-board","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Founders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1<br \/>\r\n\u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anh \u0110\u00e0o<br \/>\r\nPh\u00f9ng Nguy\u1ec5n<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Editors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/dzangthotho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 (<em>Tho Tho Dang<\/em>) <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 is a writer, essayist, and author of two collections of short stories <b>The Winter Exhibition<\/b> (2002) and <b>Possibilitie<\/b>s (2014). She plans to publish her forthcoming novel in 2023.<\/p>\r\n<p>She is co-founder and first editor-in-chief of damau.org (2006-2008) and is currently overseeing creative directions for Da M\u00e0u. From 2003-2005 she was on H\u1ee3p L\u01b0u 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 V\u0103n, V\u0103n H\u1ecdc, H\u1ee3p L\u01b0u, Kh\u1edfi H\u00e0nh, Th\u1ebf K\u1ef7 21, Gi\u00f3 V\u0103n, Ch\u1ee7 \u0110\u1ec1, \u0102n M\u00e0y V\u0103n Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng, Ajar.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>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 \u2013 TAVIET to consult on Vietnamese Language-Literature and to provide professional training for teachers.<\/p>\r\n<p>She is an active member of the LGBTQI community.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/dzoleanhdao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anh \u0110\u00e0o (<em>Anhdao Le Do<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>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 <b>UCLA<\/b> and working as a counselor and program manager for several non-profit organizations, including the <b>Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women<\/b> and the <b>Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence<\/b>. Do\u2019s 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\u2019s mentalism work has been featured on <b>Scientific American<\/b>, <b>National Geographic<\/b>, and <b>Apple<\/b>. She is sought after as a subject matter expert in deception and perception for consultations on media projects such as the film <b>Focus<\/b>, starring Will Smith, and Amazon\u2019s series <b>Sneaky Pete<\/b>. In addition, Do is the co-founder at <b>Da Mau E-Zine<\/b> and the co-author of <b><i>Poems of Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u00fay H\u1eb1ng, \u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anhdao &amp; L\u00ea \u0110\u00ecnh Nh\u1ea5t-Lang<\/i><\/b> (Vagabond Press, 2017). She is also the founder, co-owner, and director of <b>Ludus Development<\/b>, 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.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/luudieuvan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>L\u01b0u Di\u1ec7u V\u00e2n (<em>Luu Dieu Van<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">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 &#8211; Fullerton. She is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/7-gio-47-phut\"><b>47 Minutes After 7 <\/b><\/a>(Van Nghe), <a href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/van-mdec\"><b>M of December<\/b><\/a> (Vagabond Press), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-ky-cua-nhung-vat-te-luu-dieu-van\/1139071568?ean=9781666267822\"><b>Century of Scapegoating<\/b><\/a> (Van Hoc Press), <a href=\"https:\/\/uglyducklingpresse.org\/publications\/she-self-winding\/\"><b>She, Self-Winding <\/b><\/a>(Ugly Duckling Presse), and co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nxbtre.com.vn\/sach\/mau-co-xanh-trong-suot-12154.html\"><b>The Transparent Greenness of Grass<\/b><\/a> (Tre Publishing House), <a href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/poems-of-luu-dieuvan-luu-melan-nha-thuyen\"><b>Poems of L\u01b0u Di\u1ec7u V\u00e2n, L\u01b0u M\u00ealan, Nh\u00e3 Thuy\u00ean<\/b><\/a> (Vagabond Press).<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/ldnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>L\u00ea \u0110\u00ecnh Nh\u1ea5t Lang (<em>Nhat-Lang Le<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>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 <i>Poems of Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u00fay H\u1eb1ng, \u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anhdao &amp; L\u00ea \u0110\u00ecnh Nh\u1ea5t-Lang<\/i> (Vagabond Press, 2017). He is the translator of two of Mai V\u0103n Ph\u1ea5n\u2019s collections <i>Seeds of Night and Day<\/i> (Page Addie Press, 2013) and <i>Grass Cutting in a Temple Garden<\/i> (Page Addie Press, 2014). He is a co-translator of <i>Poems of L\u01b0u Di\u1ec7u V\u00e2n, L\u01b0u M\u00ealan &amp; Nh\u00e3 Thuy\u00ean<\/i> (Vagabond Press, 2014) and <i>The Selected Poems of Mai V\u0103n Ph\u1ea5n<\/i> (Publishing House of the Vietnam Writers\u2019 Association, 2015). His Vietnamese poems and translations have appeared in the printed magazines <i>Th\u1ebf K\u1ef7 21<\/i>, <i>V\u0103n H\u1ecdc<\/i> and <i>V\u0103n<\/i>, and the literary e-zines <i>Ti\u1ec1n V\u1ec7 <\/i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/tienve.org\/\">tienve.org<\/a>) and <i>Da M\u00e0u<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/damau.org\/\">damau.org<\/a>). He has been on <i>Da Mau<\/i>\u2019s editorial staff since 2007.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/dzinhtbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u0110inh T\u1eeb B\u00edch Th\u00fay (<em>Thuy Dinh<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Th\u00fay \u0110inh<\/b> 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\u2019s a practicing attorney and co-editor of the Vietnamese literary e-zine <i>Da M\u00e0u, <\/i>responsible for the magazine\u2019s Nonfiction and Literary Translation Sections. In addition, she is a freelance critic for National Public Radio (NPR), and an editor-at-large for <b><i>Asymptote Journal<\/i><\/b> \u2013 the premium online magazine for world literature in translation founded in 2011. In 2020, she was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinnerlooplit.org\/single-post\/2020\/09\/11\/summer-writing-resident-thuy-dinh-schr%C3%B6dinger-catwalk-or-a-tour-in-opposites\">writer-in-residence<\/a> at Northern Virginia&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodlawnpopeleighey.org\/\"> Woodlawn &amp; Pope-Leighey House<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/arcadiafood.org\/\"> Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture<\/a>. Her essays, reviews, and poetry translations have appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/10\/1148033914\/pico-iyer-the-half-known-life-book-review-travel\"><b><i>NPR Books<\/i><\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/what-coronavirus-vietnam-war-share-homeschooling-distancing-fearing-your-life-ncna1217776\"><b><i>NBCThink<\/i><\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/by\/thuy-dinh\/\"><b><i>Asymptote<\/i><\/b><\/a>, <b><i>Prairie Schooner<\/i><\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/fake-house\/\"><b><i>RainTaxi Review of Books<\/i><\/b><\/a>, <b><i>Manoa<\/i><\/b>, <b><i>Rattle<\/i><\/b>, <b><i>Michigan Quarterly Review<\/i><\/b>, and <b><i>Santa Fe Broadside<\/i><\/b>, among others. <b><i>Green Rice<\/i><\/b>, her co-translation of the selected poetry of L\u00e2m Th\u1ecb M\u1ef9 D\u1ea1, was published by Curbstone Press in 2005, and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in 2006. In addition, her memoir essay, \u201cLuggage and Shoes,\u201d originally appearing in <b>Once Upon A Dream: Twenty Years of Vietnamese-American Experience<\/b> (Andrews &amp; McMeel: 1995), was republished for high school classroom use in <b>Asian American Writers <\/b>(Nextext: 2001).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Her writings can be found at thuydinhwriter.com.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/hoangchinh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ho\u00e0ng Ch\u00ednh (<em>Chinh Hoang<\/em>)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Hoang Chinh<\/b> (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: <b><i>Hearing Mother Sighs at Midnight<\/i><\/b> (poems, 1991), <b><i>The Last Autumn<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 1994), <b><i>Love Sonata<\/i><\/b> (novel, 2000), <i>A <\/i><b><i>Belated Love Confession<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2002), <b><i>No Matter How Many Rivers to Cross<\/i><\/b> (novel, 2003), <b><i>Writings for Mother Back Home<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2003), <b><i>An Excerpt from the Bible<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2006), <b><i>Love in Taipei<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2007), <b><i>A Belated Love Epistle<\/i><\/b> (novel, 2007), <b><i>Night, Apiece\u2026<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2010), <b><i>The Curse from the Other World<\/i><\/b> (novel, 2019), And <b><i>Not a Day Did I See My Image<\/i><\/b> (short stories, 2019). Two of his short stories had been broadcasted on <i>BBC World Service Programmes<\/i>.\u00a0 He is the co-editor of the Vietnamese literary e-zine <i>Da M\u00e0u <\/i>(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.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/nguyenhoangnam\"><strong>Nguy\u1ec5n Ho\u00e0ng Nam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>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&#8217;s also written screenplays for three independent films in the U.S. and Vietnam, one of which he co-produced.\u00a0<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/damau.org\/author\/tranchantri\"><b>Tr\u1ea7n C. Tr\u00ed (Tri C. Tran)<\/b><\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>Tri C. Tran teaches languages and linguistics, publishes textbooks &amp; dictionaries, writes creatively, translates and participates in community language education. He was born in Saigon, raised in Nha Trang, sheltered in Puerto Princesa &amp; Bataan, Philippines and resettled in Orange County, California.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Webmaster<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hanh Nguyen<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders<br \/>\n\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1<br \/>\n\u0110\u1ed7 L\u00ea Anh \u0110\u00e0o<br \/>\nPh\u00f9ng Nguy\u1ec5n<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nEditors<br \/>\n\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 (Tho Tho Dang)<br \/>\n\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u01a1 Th\u01a1 is a writer, essayist, and author of two collections of short stories The Winter Exhibition (2002) and Possibilities (2014). 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