Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Codex
1 Bleecker St, New York, NY
7 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.
Susan Daitch is the author of The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (City Lights, 2016), Storytown (Dalkey Archive Press, 1996), and The Colorist (Vintage Contemporaries, 1990), among others. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, two Vogelstein awards, and research grants from NYU and CUNY. Her short work has been published in Black Clock, Guernica, BOMB, Vestiges, and elsewhere.