Vi Khi Nao is a cross-genre writer from Long Khánh, Vietnam.[1] She is a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize, the Feldman Prize and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award. She was the 2022 recipient of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize.[2]
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She won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016 for her short story collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture.[3] Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014.
Sheep Machine is an ekphrastic work written in response to Leslie Thornton's film of the same name. It was featured in The Paris Review as one of Sabrina Orah Mark's favorite books of 2019.[4] It was also a Staff Pick at Small Press Distribution and Drawn & Quarterly.[5][6] PEN America called it "a puzzle of a book that challenges the very way we read and consider words."[7]
She has been a semi-regular contributor to the literary annual Noon since 2011.[8]
Her 2023 book Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.[9]
Bibliography
edit- The Italy Letters (Melville House, 2024)
- Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche (11:11 Press, 2023)
- The Vegas Dilemma (11:11 Press, 2021)
- A Bell Curve Is a Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021)
- Human Tetris (with Ali Raz) (11:11 Press, 2019)
- Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018)
- Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017)
- A Brief Alphabet of Torture (Fiction Collective Two 2016)[10]
- Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016)
- The Old Philosopher (Nightboat Books, 2014)
References
edit- ^ "About Vi Khi Nao". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Vi Khi Nao and Silas House Win 2022 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize". Lambda Literary Foundation. 2022-06-10. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ "Brief Alphabet of Torture". University of Alabama Press. Archived from the original on 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ Orah Mark, Sabrina (2019-12-16). "Our Contributors' Favorite Books of 2019". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2020-08-23. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "SPD Staff Picks 2018". Small Press Distribution. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Staff Picks 2018: Benjamin". Drawn & Quarterly. Archived from the original on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Expand Your Understanding: A Reading List". PEN America. 2019-02-15. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "NOON Annual". Archived from the original on 2023-12-05. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ^ "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ "Vi Khi Nao". Poetry Foundation. 2020-05-20. Archived from the original on 2020-05-08. Retrieved 2020-05-21.