Lai was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), on January 1, 1965. She has six older brothers. Ten years later, she fled Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, with her family. She then moved to Alabama and graduated from University of Texas, Austin with a degree in journalism in 1988, and worked for about two years for the Orange County, California newspaper The Register, covering news about Little Saigon, the local Vietnamese community. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University and moved to New York, where she teaches at Parsons The New School for Design. Today, she goes by Thanhhà Lại on her website and lives in Croton-on-Hudson.[4][5]
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