The Citizenship Question

lawrence-minh bùi davis is a refugee diaspore, curator, and writer, who lives as a guest on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway Nation, sometimes also known as Prince George’s County, Maryland. A co-founder of the arts anti-profit AALR (2009), the Asian American Literature Festival (2017), the Center for Refugee Poetics (2018), and the Asian American Lit Fest Collective (2023), he believes in stewardship of literature as social and ethical ecosystem and building collective responsibility for what we read and write, and why. He is currently finishing up his first novel, GHOST ƠI.