Vi Khi Nao’s work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaborations. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her novel, Fish In Exile, was recognized by numerous sources as one of the best fiction books in 2016.

Deep Vellum: Will Evans’ Best of 2016 Reading List

Vice: 22 Best Books I Read in 2016

Entropy: Best of 2016: Best Fiction Books

Vol 1 Brooklyn: A Year of Favorites: Tobias Carroll  Who described Vi’s Fish in Exile as “the story of a family dealing with grief in a host of ways, blending emotional realism with a host of narrative risks, and creating one of the most indelible reading experiences”

Vi 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.

She is the author of two novellas, Swans In Half-Mourning (2013) and The Vanishing Point of Desire (2011), and her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, was the winner of 2014 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, won the 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest.

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Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam and currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.