JESSICA ALEXANDER AND VI KHI NAO / MANGOS LACK MOST MEANS OF SELF EXPRESSION

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VI KHI NAO is the author of 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 (Press 1913, 2017), The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014); she is also the author of the short story collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of FC2’s 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), and the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. More information can be found at https://www.vikhinao.com.

JESSICA ALEXANDER’S novella, None of This Is an Invitation (co-written with Katie Jean Shinkle) is forthcoming from Astrophil Press. Her story collection, Dear Enemy, was the winning manuscript in the 2016 Subito Prose Contest, as judged by Selah Saterstrom. Her fiction has been published in journals such as Fence, Black Warrior Review, PANK, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and DIAGRAM.