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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 was the 2022 recipient of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize.[2]
She won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016 for her short story collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture.[3] 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.[4] It was also a Staff Pick at Small Press Distribution and Drawn & Quarterly.[5][6] PEN America called it "a puzzle of a book that challenges the very way we read and consider words."[7]
She has been a semi-regular contributor to the literary annual Noon since 2011.[8]
Her 2023 book Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.[9]