Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, She Who Has No Master(s), and Danny Thanh Nguyen: March 3, 2020

The Poetry Center co-presents a celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), held at Jack Adams Hall in the César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University. DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist (for The Sympathiser) Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Thi Bui, author of the celebrated graphic novel The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, are joined by DVAN co-founder, scholar and SF State professor of Asian American Studies Isabelle Pelaud; She Who Has No Master(s), including writers Lan Duong, Aimee Phan, and Julie Thi Underhill; and by writer and comedian Danny Nguyen. Program emcee is Philip Nguyen.

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, this event was co-sponsored by DVAN, The Poetry Center, Vietnamese Students Association, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, and the student group ASPIRE. The in-person program took place just at the cusp of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.