Vi Khi Nao’s work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Among her books are A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of FC2’s 2016 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel Swimming with Dead Stars (FC2), and the poetry collection The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She was the Fall 2019 Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.