diaCRITICS highlights art, literature, and stories from writers, artists, and culture-makers of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora, on and from all shores.
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Eric Nguyen is the Editor-in-Chief of diaCRITICS. He earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Tin House Writers Workshop. For his writing, he has received the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and the Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award. Things We Lost to the Water is his debut novel.
Kathy L. Nguyễn is Co-Executive Director of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). She co-edited Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora and was the editor of Nhà magazine. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Vashon Artists Residency, Tin House, and the Community of Writers. She holds a Master’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai’i and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson.
Marguerite Nguyen is an Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Her research and teaching cover Asian American literature, Vietnamese diasporic literature, critical refugee studies, and ecocriticism. She is the author of America’s Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and Empire and co-editor of Refugee Cultures: Forty Years after the Vietnam War. Her current book project is tentatively titled Refugee Ecologies: Forced Displacement and American Literature. Marguerite’s research has been supported by the National Humanities Center, American Council of Learned Societies, and Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). She is the author of This Is All I Choose To Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature, and co-editor of Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora and The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora Dialogues. She is a Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.
Ben Tran is an Associate Professor in the departments of English and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he established the Asian American and Asia Diasporas Studies program. Originally from the Cajun borderlands of western Louisiana, he reluctantly returned to the South after spending his 20s in the Bay Area, earning his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. He is the author of Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam.
Thuy N. D. Tran is an art historian. Her work as an educator, curator, community activist, and contributing scholar has been dedicated to shifting marginalized narratives to the forefront of art history. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, with dual minors in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Daniella (Thiên Nga) Zalcman is a Vietnamese American documentary photographer based in New Orleans. She is a Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph. She is a Professor of Practice at Tulane. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.
