Dinh Tu Bich Thuy

Đinh Từ Bích Thúy (1962) is a bilingual literary and film critic, essayist, translator and fiction writer, publishing in English as Thuy Dinh.

She was born in Saigon, left Vietnam in April of 1975, grew up in the Washington D.C. area, and is working as a lawyer at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the federal government. She received her bachelor’s degree, with honors, in English and French literatures, from the University of Virginia, and a Doctor of Law from the same university.

Her essays have appeared in Vietnamese journals Thế Kỷ 21, Hợp Lưu and Da Màu, and American journals Manoa, Amerasia Journal and Rain Taxi Review. They include "Kẻ Lưu Đày và Đế Quốc," on Linh Đinh’s short story collection, Fake House (Hợp Lưu 57), "Cyclo: Poetry of Discordant Force" (Washington DC’s Asian American International Film Festival Catalogue, 1996), "The Scent of Green Papaya: Ambiguity of the Vietnamese Essence" (Amerasia Journal, Spring 1994) and "Luggage and Shoes" (Amerasia Journal, Fall 1991).

Her memoir, "Luggage and Shoes," is included in the anthology for high school students, Asian American Writers (Nextext: 2001); and in Once Upon A Dream: Twenty Years of the Vietnamese-American Experience (Andrews & McMeel: 1995).

With Martha Collins, she translated Cốm Non [Green Rice] by Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ. Published by Curbstone Press, it was chosen as a Kiriyama Notable Book for 2006. Her translations are included in The Norton Anthology of World Poetry, edited by Tina Chang (Norton, 2007) and Children Poetry Inspired by Art Works from Around The Globe, edited by Jan Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2008).

She is also an editor of the webzine Da Màu.

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Đinh Từ Bích Thúy online

• English and Vietnamese versions of "Exile and The Kingdom", an analysis of Linh Đinh’s Fake House
• English and Vietnamese versions of "Fragments of an Endless Song," an essay on Vietnamese literary feminism
• Đinh Từ Bích Thúy's page on Da Màu, featuring her essays and short stories
• "Kurt Vonnegut và Những Thành Phố của Tro Bụi"
• "Lỗ Vận với Tôi", a sudden fiction
• Đinh Từ Bích Thúy comparing John Balaban's and Linh Dinh's translations of Hồ Xuân Hương
• "Ngày Tôi Mất Tháng Tư", on Hợp Lưu 82
• "Hoshomon", a sudden fiction
• "Nhã Ca - Một Huy Hoàng Trên Cỏ Mướt," an essay on Nhã Ca
• "Cạnh Sườn Đế Quốc," an essay on Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul and Nhất Linh
• An interview on Radio Free Asia
• A letter to Talawas, regarding Nguyễn Hữu Liêm