Ly Hoàng Ly is a Ho Chi Minh City-based award-winning poet and multidisciplinary artist, working across performance, sculpture, film, ceramics, book arts, installation and painting. She was a book editor for Trẻ Publishing House in Ho Chi Minh City (2000–2020). She received a BFA in Oil Painting from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1999 and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, an MFA in Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Studies from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, in 2013.