Thu's poetry for the High Desert Project was truly breathtaking. The way she wove together everyone's reflections into something lyrical and evocative was nothing short of masterful.
— Isabel Engel
Exhibition Pieces
Flowers of the DMV(N) for Culture House Avant Garden
Flowers of the DMV(N) for Culture House Avant Garden
Flowers of the DMV(N) for Culture House Avant Garden
Trans Rights and Peonies
Asian Latinx Black Solidarity and Violets
Blacks for AAPI and Korean Peonies
Vietnamese and Pink Peonies
White Iris for NUE Elegantly Vietnamese Spring 2024 Menu
Purple Iris for NUE Elegantly Vietnamese Spring 2024 Menu
Watercolor Workshop for Rocklands Winery, MD
Lunar New Year Poems for NUE Elegantly Vietnamese
Portrait by Loc Huynh for the Inman Gallery in Austin, TX
Paintbrush Flower for High Desert Museum in Bend, OR
Flourishing Wildflower Mural for Gallery Y in Washington, DC
Fireweed for High Desert Museum in Bend, OR
Magenta Peonies Watercolor for UMMA in Ann Arbor, MI
Pink Peonies for UMMA in Ann Arbor, MI
Purple Irises for Dutch Embassy in Washington, DC
Sagebrush and Wild Rose for High Desert Museum in Bend, OR
CV
forthcoming
Contributing author
forthcoming
in forthcoming book Uncertain Girls in Uncertain Times published by Red Hen Press | May 2025
for Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong | May 2025
Essays
for Soapberry Review | December 2024
for Soapberry Review | August 2024
Poetry
“The Long Way”
in Good River Review | April 2025
in Diode | March 2025
in Bellingham Review | February, 2025
in Panorama | 2024
in Revolute Lit | May 2022 | 2024
in Southern Humanities Review | 2021
Additional Paintings
Floral Spring menus | NUE in VA | October, 2024
Featured Floral Mural | Culture House in DC | September 2024
“The Story of Fruit” | NUE restaurant in VA | July 31, 2024
Floral mural | Sparkfest24 at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, Texas | June 7, 2024
Awards and Positions
ED Advisory Committee at DC Arts Center in DC | ongoing since March 2025
“The Long Way” Honorable Mention at Bethesda Writer’s Center | March 2025
Pushcart Prize nominee for “We Were Made This Way” published by Revolute | October 2022
Reading Standing Committee Member for the National Assessment on Educational Progress | 2021-2024
Chair of Subcommittee on the Young Adult Book Awards for International Literacy Association | 2022-2024
Staff at the National SEED Project | ongoing since June 2020
Performances and Workshops
Hey! We Need to Talk featured poet at University of Michigan Museum of Art | May 2025
Dialogue poetry at High Desert Museum in Bend, OR | May 14, 2025
IlluminAsia Asia After Dark Poetry at National Museum of Asian Art | May 2025
“Art and Activism” Social Justice Day Speaker at Lowell School in DC | April 2025
Greenway Poetry Series at People’s Book Takoma | April 2025
Featured poet Reuben Jackson Jazz Poetry Set at American Poetry Museum | March 2024
Unassimilable book club discussion leader for Soapberry Review | March 2024
Featured poet at the Inn at Little Washington | February 14, 2025
“50 Years of HOPE and HA-HAs” | Vagabond @ DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities | January 25, 2025.
“Art and Activism” MLK Assembly at the Maret School | January 2025
Lunar New Year poems for NUE at Smithsonian in DC | January 2025
“Imagining a Flourishing Future” | Art & Democracy Day at Hopkins Bloomberg Center | October 22, 2024.
“We Need To Talk: Repairing Our Social Fabric One Creative Conversation At a Time” | Davidson College | September 30, 2024.
Spring Poetry at Folger Theater in DC | August 3, 2024
Dialogue poetry at NUE restaurant in VA | July 31, 2024
“Cut Fruit” storytelling at the National Museum of Asian Art | June 22, 2024
“Art in Civic Education” | The Sphere Initiative at the Cato Institute | June 22, 2024.
“We Are the Greatest Poems” | Sparkfest24 at Amphibian Stage in Fort Worth, Texas | June 7, 2024
Featured AANHPI speaker at FIS Global, and poet in residence | May 20, 2024.
“Road To Recovery: A Poetic Response” | Brentwood Arts Exchange | May 19. 2024.