About Me

My name is Diem Dangers. I am a printmaker, watercolor artist, and writer whose work explores the mythic threads that connect women and the wild across cultures and continents in order to reveal the value of myth as medicine for the disconnection, disenchantment, and loss of belonging that mark contemporary life.

This memoir is one example that draws on folktales, fairytales, and ancestral wisdom as a living language to name and honor and hold experiences of contradiction, beauty and wounding together that live only at the edges of modern narrative discourses. It is a visual and poetic reckoning with the inheritance of war—familial, historical, and mythic—and an attempt to make the unresolvable inhabitable through mythic ways of knowing and symbolic visual language.

My work is shaped by a childhood lived between cultures, races, histories, and geographies, including formative years in Asia and many return visits to my mother’s homeland of Vietnam. I currently live in Massachusetts with my husband and son.