Please join Black Sun Lit for a virtual celebration of Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass, with readings by the author, Valerie Hsiung & Christine Shan Shan Hou.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
8 PM EST
This event will be hosted on Zoom. Please register at blacksunlit.eventbrite.com to receive a link to the event.
Vi Khi Nao is the author of the novels Swimming With Dead Stars (FC2, 2022) and Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), the story collections The Vegas Dilemma (11:11 Press, 2021) and A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the play Waiting for God (Apocalypse Party, 2022), and six poetry collections: Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022), A Bell Curve Is A Pregnant Straight Line (11:11 Press, 2021), Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (1913 Press, 2017), and The Old Philosopher (winner of the 2014 Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry). She was the Fall 2019 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
Valerie Hsiung is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and the author of several poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath, forthcoming), To love an artist (Essay Press, forthcoming), which was selected by Renee Gladman for the Essay Press Book Prize, outside voices, please (CSU, 2021), Name Date of Birth Emergency Contact (The Gleaners, 2020), YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books, 2020), and e f g (Action Books, 2016). Her writing has appeared in print at The Believer, The Nation, Chicago Review, and digital vestiges; in flesh at Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, and The Poetry Project; in sound waves at Montez Press Radio and Hyle Greece; and other forms of particulate matter (WATERPROOF Miami, Downs & Ross). Her work has been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, Lighthouse Works, and public streets and trails she has walked on and hummed along for years. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives between nowhere and somewhere.
Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and visual artist of Hakka Chinese descent living in Brooklyn, NY. Their publications include The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing (After Hours Editions, 2021), Community Garden for Lonely Girls (Gramma Poetry, 2017), “I’m Sunlight” (The Song Cave, 2016), C O N C R E T E S O U N D, a collaborative artists’ book with Audra Wolowiec (2011), and Accumulations (Publication Studio, 2010). Their poems have appeared in Vestiges, No, Dear, Elderly, and elsewhere.