DIASPORIC VIETNAMESE ARTISTS NETWORK
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Mission Statement
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) celebrates and fosters diasporic Vietnamese literary voices. DVAN promotes nonfiction, fiction, and poetry to empower Vietnamese artists in the diaspora to inspire understanding and dialogue within our community, and with others. Our complex and diverse stories must be championed and passed on to current and future generations. We are refugees, immigrants, survivors, and descendants, and our stories must be heard.
About This Cause
Our co-founders Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and Professor Isabelle Thuy Pelaud met as students in a San Francisco-based organization called Ink & Blood (active from 1991 to 2000). The mission of Ink & Blood was to promote Vietnamese American writers and poets. After becoming university professors, they decided in 2007 to expand and professionalize the scope of Ink & Blood by including the diaspora at large. They recognized that Vietnamese American literature, compared to other Asian American immigrant texts, were still underrepresented in both academia and popular culture. With DVAN, they aimed to put theories into practice and be relevant to their community by empowering and disseminating Vietnamese voices and visions. Ten years later, DVAN has become a nationally and internationally recognized organization. DVAN supports creatives through community events, residencies, workshops, and publication opportunities ranging from an online magazine to books, for both emerging and established writers. DVAN advocates for diasporic artists to express themselves on their own terms and cultivates narrative change by amplifying the diversity of our voices.