lê thi diem thúy
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lê thi diem thúy is a writer and solo performance artist. Born in southern Vietnam and raised in southern California, she often explores in her work the role of the body as the site of memory.
As a Radcliffe fellow, lê will work on “the bodies between us,” a novel concerned with the lives of Vietnamese refugees uprooted by the American/Vietnam War. The novel takes as its center the refugees’ memories of a time after leaving their home and before arriving in the next place, when they were small bodies in small boats floating upon the open water.
lê has been awarded residencies from the Lannan Foundation, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Hedgebrook. Her solo performance works have been presented at, among other venues, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, the international Women Playwrights’ Festival in Galway, Ireland, and the New World Theater at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her first book, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.
