Nancy Arbuthnot, professor emerita, United States Naval Academy, is a poet and memoirist. She enjoys translating poetry from all languages she comes into contact with, including co-translating from languages she is only very slightly familiar with, such as Vietnamese. She and Lê Pham have co-translated two books of Lê’s poems from the Vietnamese; currently they are working on Valley of Clouds, the libretto for a musical theater piece about a Vietnamese-American family.