A Reading by Vi Khi Nao, Anna Moschovakis, and Christina Vega-Westhoff

Vi Khi Nao is the author of Sheep Machine, of 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. She 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.
 
Anna Moschovakis's most recent books are They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This and the English translation of Bresson on Bresson. She is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse and a co-founder of Bushel, a collectively run art and community space in the Catskills. Her first novel, Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love will be published in August 2018. 
 
Christina Vega-Westhoff is a poet, translator, aerialist, and teaching artist living in Buffalo, NY. She teaches with The Bird’s Nest Circus Arts, the Geneseo Migrant Center, Just Buffalo Literary Center, and Young Audiences of Western New York. Her first book Suelo Tide Cement won the 2017 Nightboat Prize for Poetry and was published earlier this year.