is a Vietnamese and American author. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. After having spent over 20 years in the U.S, she is now a reverse immigrant living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with her husband and their daughter. Her debut novel, IF I HAD TWO LIVES, is out from Europa Editions. Her second novel CONSTELLATIONS OF EVE is the inaugural title available now from DVAN/TTUP, a publishing imprint founded by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, a scholar of Asian American history and literature, and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen to promote Vietnamese American literature. Her works can be found at TIME Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Salon, Lit Hub. abbigailrosewood.com

grew up in Orange County, California and now teaches in the MFA Writing Program and Writing and Literature Program at California College of the Arts. She is the author of The Reeducation of Cherry Truong and We Should Never Meet, which was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. A 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, Aimee received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, MacDowell Arts Colony, and Hedgebrook. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, USA Today, and Guernica, among others.

is the author of a story collection, Quiet As They Come. Described by Sandra Cisneros as, “Heartbreaking tales of ordinary people lost between the extraordinary circumstances of history. Bitter and beautiful all at once”, this debut collection tracks the breaking asunder of an extended Vietnamese family newly arrived in California in the 1970s as they attempt to define home in their new lives as exiles. Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Diacritics, Indiana Review, Night Train Magazine, Santa Clara Review, and the Heyday Books anthology, New California Writing. She has been awarded a Hedgebrook Residency, a Djerassi Residency, an Anderson Center Residency, and a Macondo Foundation Fellowship. She won the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction and was a Walter W. Stiern Library Writer in Residence. She serves on the Board of Litquake. She has lived a nomadic life residing in Vietnam, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, and Hawaii. She is currently based in the Bay Area and is at work on a novel. angiechau.com

is a poet, community artist, activist, curator and educator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. In addition to journals, magazines and anthologies, her most recent publication is “Buy 10 Get 1 Free! Open Letter to Bánh Mì Wanna Be’s” in What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family. Anh-Hoa was a member of the Asian American Women Artists Association and the Vietnamese Artists Collective and is a Hedgebrook and VONA alumna. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum, St. Paul Public Library’s READ BRAVE program with her project Recipes for Care and The Floating Library with her project “Waves Enfolding: A Paper Memorial” that honored lives lost during the Vietnamese refugee waves of 1954 and 1975-1992. Anh-Hoa was also a host for the Minnesota Humanities Center’s War and Memory Series and a presenter for the PBS/MELSA Vietnam War: 360 series.

Barbara Tran’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Conjunctions, The Malahat Review, and The Paris Review. Her poetry chapbook, In the Mynah Bird’s Own Words, won Tupelo Press’ inaugural chapbook award. Precedented Parroting, a full-length collection, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in 2024. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Bread Loaf Scholarship, and MacDowell Freund Fellowship, Barbara is a co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition, and a co-writer of the short XR film Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend, which was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and an Official Selection of SXSW. barbaratran.com

is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. She is also the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book An Asian American A to Z: a Children’s Guide to Our History (Haymarket Books). You can find her at cathylinhche.com

is an artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of the poetry-art collection, Instrument (Fonograf Editions), winner of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and its musical companion, Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else; a hybrid-form memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, with song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. She has received support from the Creative Capital Foundation, NEA, and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Strom was born in Vietnam and lives in Portland, Oregon. daostrom.com

Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the forthcoming collection, Root Fractures (Scribner 2024). She is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and winner of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Currently, she is core faculty in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. dianakhoinguyen.com

is the author of several books including Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and the Griffin Prize nominated Violet Energy Ingots. Her latest collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, published by Wave Books in 2021, is the winner of the Canada Book Award and General Governor’s Literary Award for Poetry. In 2019, her body of work was nominated for a Neustadt Prize for Literature, a prestigious international literary award often compared with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Hoa lives in Toronto with her family. hoa-nguyen.com

is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, forthcoming 2023), Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020) and four poetry chapbooks, including INNANET (The Offending Adam, 2021). Stark is a California-native, mixed race Vietnamese American poet, editor, and educator that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and dual MA Degrees in English Literature and Cultural Studies from Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. She received her PhD in English from Duke University. She currently serves as a Poetry Editor for AGNI and the Hybrid Editor for Honey Literary. She is a Poetry Editor at AGNI and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series in Jacksonville, Florida. jessicaqstark.com

is the author of six books, including Underneath (winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award), A Bestiary (PEN/USA Non-Fiction Award finalist), and Changing (recipient of a PEN/Open Books Award). Her micro-tale collection The Mute Kids is forthcoming in 2023. She is the Director of the MFA in Writing at UC San Diego.

is a multi-disciplinary artist. She has exhibited internationally and her work can be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe including the Muhammad Ali Museum, ArtFields, the Mint Museum of Art and the Imago Mundi Benetton Foundation. Notable accomplishments include: NC Zeitgeist Foundation Biennial Touring Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington 2022 National Biennial, ArtFields 2022 2nd Place Jury Prize, 2020 Arts & Science Council Creative Renewal Fellowship, McColl Center Residency, Community Impact Grant from the Partnership for Democracy, Berlin. She is co-founder of Moving Poets Charlotte | Berlin and has creative projects in the USA and Germany. myloandinh.com

is a Vietnamese American poet and writer from Oakland, CA and author of The House I Inherit (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and A Plucked Zither (Red Hen Press, 2023), which won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award 2021. She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House, VONA/Voices, and Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. Her publications have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Asian American Writers' Workshop: The Margins, and elsewhere. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Literature at the University of California, San Diego (Kumeyaay land) where she researches Asian American feminism. phuongthaovuong.com

is a poet and performer of Vietnamese-Japanese descent. She is the author of Winter Phoenix (Deep Vellum, 2021) and the forthcoming Anon (Deep Vellum, 2022); and two chapbooks: Correspondent Medley (winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize, published with Factory Hollow Press) and I Am Not a War (winner of the 2015 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest). Her poems appear in The Seattle Review, Puerto del Sol, Poor Claudia, and elsewhere. She's a graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program, where she also served as Poetry Editor of Sonora Review. Her favorite color is purple. sophiaterazawa.com

is a community organizer based in Portland, ME. She is the author of Soap for the Dogs (Gramma, 2018) and her poems can be found in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, diaCRITICS, and others. She is the creator of Tender Table, a project celebrating BIPOC community, food, and storytelling. tendertable.com

(they/them > she/her) is a solo performer, writer, and producer whose first full-length one-person comedy, Fortunate Daughter, was named one of the Top 10 Bay Area Plays of 2013 by KQED Year in the Arts. They make art about whatever pisses them off—racism, sexual violence, white power, hetero/cis-sexism, and people who don’t say “please” and “thank you.” Nguyen is currently a doctoral student at Stanford University’s Theater & Performance Studies program, writing a dissertation on sexual violence, queer migration, and performance.

is the author of seven poetry collections & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Swimming with Dead Stars. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her book, Suicide: the Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche is out of 11:11 in Spring 2023. A recipient of the 2022 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. vikhinao.com