Author lê thi diem thúy to Give Reading as Part of Visiting Writers Series

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, author lê thi diem thúy will give a reading on April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and open to the public.

lê thi diem thúy is a writer and solo performance artist. Born in southern Vietnam and raised in southern California, she often explores in her work the role of the body as the site of memory. lê is the author of the debut novel, The Gangster We Are All Looking For. Her prose and poetry have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Harper’s Magazine, Muae and The Best American Essays as well as in the anthologies Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, The Very Inside, Half & Half, and Watermark. Her solo performance works Red Fiery Summer, the bodies between us, and Carte Postale have been presented at — among other venues — the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, the International Women Playwrights’ Festival in Galway, Ireland, the New World Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Marfa Theater Company in Marfa, Texas. She has been awarded residencies from the Headlands Center For The Arts, the GAEA Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Elizabeth Drew Professor in the department of English Language and Literature at Smith College.