About the author
Born in Vietnam, Le Pham Le attended the University of Pedagogy in Saigon, where she earned a BA in Vietnamese Language and Literature. After teaching in high school for five years, she left her country with her family during the fall of South Vietnam. Her first publication is a bilingual collection of Vietnamese poems entitled Gio Thoi Phuong Nao/From Where The Wind Blows (Vietnamese International Poetry, 2003).
Email: Le (at) LePhamLe (dot) com
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English translation by:
Nancy Arbuthnot teaches literature and creative writing at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Her publications include English translations of Le Pham Le’s poetry (From Where The Wind Blows, 2003), and Mexico Shining, translations of Aztec songs (Three Continents Press, 1996).
Dan-Thanh Pham Le is a 2002 graduate of the University of California, Davis, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in English. She currently works as a high school counselor.