Dao Strom

Dao Strom is a poet, musician, writer, and multimedia artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. The author of several hybrid works, including the poetry-art collection Instrument (2020), which won the 2022 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and its musical companion, Traveler’s Ode, her work has received support from the Creative Capital Foundation, NEA, and others; she is also the author of two books of fiction. In 2017 Dao co-founded De-Canon as a literary art and social engagement “pop-up library” project to center works by writers of color. She is a founding member of the Vietnamese women and nonbinary artist collective, She Who Has No Master(s). Born in Vietnam, she grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern California and now lives in Portland, Oregon.