Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator whose work centers on spiritualities, healing, and sexualities with a focus on Southeast Asia and its diasporas; they are the author of Return Engagements: Contemporary Art's Traumas of Modernity and History in Sài Gòn and Phnom Penh (Duke UP 2021) and White Gaze with Latipa (Sming Sming Books, 2019).