The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) uplifts and fosters diasporic Vietnamese and Southeast Asian literary voices. DVAN promotes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry to empower artists in the diaspora and inspire understanding and dialogue within our community, and with others. We champion our complex and diverse stories for future generations. We are refugees, immigrants, survivors, and descendants, and our stories must be heard.
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Latest from diaCRITICS, DVAN’s Online Magazine
Book Review: The Manicurist’s Daughter by Susan Lieu
About five years ago, I watched Susan Lieu perform her one-woman show, 140LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother as part of the Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest in San Francisco. The show captured Susan’s journey as she tried...
On Complex Children’s Literature: A Conversation between Hà Dinh and Cathy...
I've always had this story in my heart. I left the refugee camp when I was five years old, and I just remember glimpses of things that happened at the camp that stayed with me. And one of those...
“To live with opacity, to live with uncertainty”: A Conversation with...
I have been trying to think about the ways in which the everyday engagements with these objects—and in many ways we think of them as feminized and thus degraded objects, right?—actually open us up into these kind of really...