Thúy Đinh

Thúy Đinh is a bilingual critic, translator, and editor. Her essays and translations have appeared in Asymptote, NPR Books, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, diaCritics: Diasporic Vietnamese/Southeast Asian Literature and Art, Prairie Schooner, and Rain Taxi, among other publications. Green Rice: Poems by Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ (Curbstone Books, 2005), co-translated with Martha Collins, was nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in 2006. She is among twenty-eight authors featured in The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later (Three Rooms Press, 2025), edited by Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran. 

In spring 2025, Đinh guest edited “Untethered States: Literature of the Vietnamese Diaspora,” a special issue of Words Without Borders that marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. She serves as the coeditor of the Vietnamese webzine Da Màu and editor-at-large at Asymptote Journal. Currently, Đinh is a judge for the 2026 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association.