Lannan Foundation

Le Thi Diem Thuy, Poet - Marfa, Summer 2001

Lê Thi Diem Thúy’s prose and poetry have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Harper’s Magazine, and The Best American Essays of 1997. Her solo performance work, Red Fiery Summer, and the bodies between us, have been presented at the International Women Playwright’s Festival in Galway, Ireland, and the New World Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently working on a book of prose entitled The Gangster We Are All Looking For.

“In Marfa, I was able to enter deeply into the world of my work which inevitably returned me to the world of my life. As I worked, everyone I lost this year made their way to me in Marfa.. This was significant, as so much of my work is concerned with the presence of the dead in the lives of the living.”