Dao Strom

Dao Strom is a Vietnam-born, Portland, Oregon-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, poetry, writing, and visual art. She intertwines these "three voices"—written, sung, and visual—to explore themes of hybridity, diaspora, identity, and personal and collective histories. Her art blends genres like ambient folk, spoken word, sound collage, and post-rock, creating a fluid, evocative sound. Notable recent works include the album *Tender Revolutions*—a genre-blurring project accompanied by a book that delves into themes of Asian identity and representation—and *Traveler's Ode*, a musical companion to her poetry collection *Instrument*, which won the 2022 Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award for Poetry.

Born in Saigon in 1973, Strom fled Vietnam as a toddler with her family and grew up in Northern California's Sierra Nevada foothills. She published her first novel in 2003 and has since released several books and albums exploring diasporic Vietnamese experiences and identity. Strom also co-founded art collectives like She Who Has No Master(s), composed of Vietnamese diaspora women writers, emphasizing collaboration and amplifying marginalized voices. Her work is supported by notable institutions including the Creative Capital Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, reflecting her significant contributions to experimental, hybrid literary and musical forms.

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