Vi Khi Nao

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 won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016 for her short story collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture.[2] 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.[3] It was also a Staff Pick at Small Press Distribution and Drawn & Quarterly.[4][5] PEN America calls it "A puzzle of a book that challenges the very way we read and consider words."[6]

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References
  1. Academy of American Poets. "About Vi Khi Nao | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  2. "Brief Alphabet of Torture - University of Alabama Press". www.uapress.ua.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  3. Orah Mark, Sabrina (2019-12-16). "Our Contributors' Favorite Books of 2019". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  4. "SPD Staff Picks 2018 : Small Press Distribution". www.spdbooks.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  5. "Staff Picks 2018: Benjamin | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly". mtl.drawnandquarterly.com. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  6. "Expand Your Understanding: A Reading List". PEN America. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  7. "Vi Khi Nao". Poetry Foundation. 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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