Vi Khi Nao is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018); Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017); the short stories collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016; the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016); and the poetry collection The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014.