Lê Pham Lê, born in Da Lat, Viet Nam, earned her B.A. in Vietnamese Language and Literature and taught for five years before coming to the United States in 1979, where she raised her three children and worked for many years as a lab coordinator at Los Medanos Community College in California. Her books include From Where the Wind Blows (Sacramento: Vietnamese International Poetry Society, 2003, in Vietnamese and English) and Waves Beyond Waves (Osaka, Japan: Chikurinkan, 2013, in Vietnamese, Japanese and English).