Portland artist Dao Strom wants to turn the frame, change the perspective and destabilize the familiar American narrative of Vietnam. “I think about the war as being a big part of my inheritance; the ...

“It’s definitely a time in this country when it’s important to give visibility to marginalized voices. And then for us, as artists of color, to come together and form a community,” says Portland ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we feature a conversation from Pickathon 2022. Literary Arts partnered with the Pickathon music festival to program on-stage author readings, ...

THIS FALL, Portland writer Dao Strom followed up her two books of fiction with a memoir, We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People. Strom’s new book describes leaving Vietnam as a young girl during the Fall ...

Artist Dao Strom discusses her relationship to writing and reads a moving poem. Writer and artist Dao Strom discusses her parents’ relationship to writing and her own work and reads a moving poem.

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The Gwen Frostic Reading Series closes out its spring 2017 season with a bang this April, offering three presentations running the gamut from graduate students to seasoned ...

Books brought friends and bandmates Dao and Elvia together. They are both creative young mothers, and since their first encounter at the Children's Museum a few years ago, they have shared books by ...

Dao Strom’s novel about a Vietnamese refugee, her children, their Danish stepfather and their life together in the Northern California sticks has an appropriately desultory air to it. The narrative is ...

Strom's debut novel traces a Vietnamese family's bumpy path to immigration and assimilation in California. Trinh Ahn Tran is a freethinking Saigon journalist in the 1970s—one of few such women—known ...

Small moments carry enormous weight in these four loosely linked novellas about young Vietnamese women living in present-day California and Texas. Mary, a film student, feels compelled to find meaning ...