Sunday, July 22, 2018
Topos Bookstore
788 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY
6:30 PM
Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khánh, Vietnam. She is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (1913 Press, 2017), the story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), and the poetry collection The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in Fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in Poetry.
Claire Donato is the author of Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013) and The Second Body (Poor Claudia, 2016). Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Territory, Fanzine, Bennington Review, Folder, and BOMB. She teaches in the BFA Writing Program at Pratt Institute.
Rachael Wilson is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in apricota, A propósito de nada / Apropos of nothing (Aeromoto + Wendy’s Subway, 2017), The Brooklyn Rail, Elderly, Jacket2, The Volta, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder of the Organism for Poetic Research and a member of Belladonna* Collaborative.