Dao Strom is an artist whose work explores hybridity through melding disparate “voices”—written, sung, visual—to contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories.
Strom is the author of a bilingual poetry-art book, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SOMEONE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE, an experimental memoir, WE WERE MEANT TO BE A GENTLE PEOPLE, a song cycle, EAST/WEST, and two books of fiction, GRASS ROOF, TIN ROOF and THE GENTLE ORDER OF GIRLS AND BOYS. She has received awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, RACC, the NEA, and others. She was born in Vietnam, grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, and is now based in Portland.
She is also co-founder of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective art project of women writers and artists of the Vietnamese diaspora, the editor of diaCRITICS.org, and makes music as The Sea and The Mother.
“But rather than reject...fragments as incomplete, Strom embraces the fragment as the smallest reliable unit of truth. The result — a collage of images, memories, and moments — embodies the struggle to shape her own identity. Rather than edit out her confusion, Strom places uncertainty at the center of her project, using photographs, footnotes, formatting, and fonts to recreate contradiction on the page... this forces the reader to contend with the same conflicting voices...” —LA Review of Books
“Quietly beautiful… hip without being ironic.” —The New Yorker
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