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ISABELLE THUY PELAUD (Executive Director) is associate professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. Her essays and short stories have been published in Making More Waves (1997), Tilting the Continent (2000) and Vietnam Dialogue Inside/Out (2001). Her academic work can be found in Mixed Race Literature (2002), The New Face of Asian Pacific America (2003), Amerasia Journal (2003)(2005) and Michigan Quarterly Review (2005). She is working on a manuscript titled History, Identity and Survival: Reading Vietnamese American Literature.

VIET THANH NGUYEN (President) is an associate professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has received residencies or scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize. (Viet Nguyen's website)

DAVID NGUYEN (Treasurer) is a board member of Association for Viet Arts. He works as a financial analyst for a technology company. David will help DVAN with our budgeting, website, and administrative tasks.

NGUYEN QUI DUC (Board Member) is an author and journalist with over 20 years of experience in the US, Europe and Asia. He was an artist in residence at Villa Montalvo in 1995. Duc was an Alexander Gerbode fellow in 2005 and received two grants from that foundation. He is now based in Ha Noi where he is pursuing various artistic projects, including an artist residency and a gallery with which DVAN is collaborating.

LAN DUONG (Board Member) is an assistant professor at UC Riverside who conducts research focused on youth culture, gender, and sexuality in the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora. Her book looks at these works through the thematic of betrayal and the politics of collaboration. Lan's second book project examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present-day.

MARIAM B. LAM (Board Member) teaches comparative literature, media and cultural studies, and Southeast Asian studies at UC Riverside. She specializes in literature and film, diasporic and ethnic studies, gender/sexuality, translation, tourism and postcoloniality. Her book, Surfin' Vietnam: Trauma, Memory, and Cultural Politics, analyzes production and community politics within and across Vietnam, France, and the US.

VIET LE (Board Member) is an artist, creative writer, and curator. Lê's work has been featured in Amerasia Journal; Fuse, Nhà magazine; Blue Arc Anthology of California Poets, among others.  He has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, the Banff Centre, Fulbright-Hays, PEN Center USA, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Lê obtained his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California. (Viet Le's website)

REBEKAH LINH COLLINS is a writer, editor and translator. She is currently living in Viet Nam and writing a dissertation on contemporary Vietnamese literature in Vietnamese, French, and English. With Barbara Tran she edited a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review, "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame" (Fall 2004 and Winter 2005).

VO HONG CHUONG-DAI (Võ Hồng Chương-Đài) is a researcher, writer, editor and translator. She is interested in Asian/American transnational and diasporic literature, films and visual culture. Her current book project examines the politics of knowledge production in Vietnam during the transition from socialist realism to post-socialist aesthetics and neoliberalism. She teaches college courses on Asian America, Southeast Asia and Asia. She has received numerous fellowships and grants, including those from the Fulbright Foundation and Vermont Studio Center.

AIMEE PHAN's first book, We Should Never Meet: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2004) has won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Prose. It was also named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction, as well as a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner and Meridian. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today and the Oregonian. She has received a 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Maytag Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a MacDowell Colony Residency. She currently chairs the Writing and Literature program at the California College of the Arts.



Original Ink and Blood members Thai Anh Nguyen-Khoa (left) and Isabelle Pelaud (second from left) with well-wishers at DVAN's "Vietnamese Poets of the Diaspora" on November 8, 2008. Photo courtesy of Thai Anh Nguyen-Khoa.