2024 EVENT/TRAVEL CALENDAR
8.13. 24: Tracing the Emotional Roots of Queer Writing | Literary Cleveland
7.14.24 - 7.19.24: The University of Iowa |The Iowa Summer Writing Festival The Shape of Queerness: A Multi-Genre Workshop:
6.20.24 - 6.30.24: Portland, OR: PNCA Residency
6.21.24 | Road Trip
5.6.24 | New York (KGB)
4.10.24- 4.22.24: MOCA | Blair of Mass | w/ Dao Strom, Hoa Nguyen, Barbara Tran, MyLoan Dinh, Vi Khi Nao, Lily Hoang
4.8.24 - 4.9.24: Little Rock, AR
3.24.24 - 3.25.24 | Cancelled : Brooklyn, NY | Pratt Institute
3.19.24: Fredericksburg, VA | University of Mary Washington
3.10.24: Las Vegas, NV
3.7.24 ---- 3.10.24: Gold Futures Retreat
2.29.24: Leap Into Cherry Tree: Issue 10 Launch @ 7 pm EST (Zoom)
2.10.24: FC2 | The Torn Label (https://tornlabel.com)
2.10.24: AWP Off-Site Reading | from 7-8:30 PM CT
at Nighthawk: 1228 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64105
2.9.24 : Co-hosted event (Anvil and Book*hug Press): Friday February 9 at 7 pm, Flagship Books: Stuart Ross & Vi Khi Nao
2.9.24: Offsite Reading | Brewery Emperial | 1829 Oak Street, KCMC
2.9.24: AWP | Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Ecstasy & Agony of Collaborative Books | Number: F237 |
Date/Time: Friday February 9, 2024 3:20pm - 4:35pm | Location: Room 2502B, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
2.9.24: Offsite Reading | Good Morning Gold Line, Ricochet, & Air/Lightt 9-10 am | Kansas City Public Library - Central Library | Helzberg Auditorium | 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105 | Readers will be Maxwell Suzuki and Jay Aquinas Thompson for Gold Line Press; Vi Khi Nao and Matt Broaddus for Ricochet Editions; and Adele Elise Williams for AirLight Magazine
2.8.24: Offsite Reading | 6-8 pm | Cinder Block Brewery 110 East 18th Ave, North Kansas City, MO 64116
2.8.24: AWP | Anvil Press | Book Signing @ 2pm
2.8.24: AWP | Title: Sound & Color: Poets and Visual Artists in Exquisite Exchange
Number: T119
Date/Time: 9:00am - 10:15am on Thursday February 8, 2024
Location: Room 2104B, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
2.7.24: AWP: Reading @ Stray Cat Film Center with Kernpunkt from 6-9 pm | 1662 Broadway Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108
2.7.24 ---- 2.11.24: AWP
1.25.23: Chicago, IL: Sarah Schulman's Shimmer
1.24.24: Iowa City, IA
1.23.24: UIOWA
1.4.24: PNCA 5--7 pm CST
1.3.24: PNCA 5--7 pm CST
1.3.24 -1.6.24: Rochester, MN
JUROR
2019 Scowcroft Prose Prize
2019 Lambda
2020 Lambda
2021 Lambda
2023 Lambda
The 2019 Chautauqua Janus Prize
2019 Black Warrior Review Flash Fiction Contest
2020 Charlotte Mew Chapbook Contest
2020 Mountain West Writers' Contest
2021 Blood Orange Review Fiction Contest
2021 The Harvey Swados Fiction Prize
2021 UArts Fiction Prize
Mark & Melody Teppola Prizes in Creative Writing at Willamette University
2021 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
The 2022 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Gigantic Sequins 11th Annual Poetry Contest
2022 George Garrett Fiction Prize
2023 Utah Original Writing Competition
The 2023 Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction
The 2023 Brannan Prize
2023 CONFERENCES & PANELS
Thursday | 2.8.24: AWP
Title: Sound & Color: Poets and Visual Artists in Exquisite Exchange
Number: T119
Date/Time: 9:00am - 10:15am on Thursday February 8, 2024
Location: Room 2104B, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Friday | 2.9.24: AWP
Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Ecstasy & Agony of Collaborative Books Number: F237
Date/Time: Friday February 9, 2024 3:20pm - 4:35pm
Location: Room 2502B, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Saturday | 2.10. 24
AWP Off-Site Reading
from 7-8:30 PM CT
at Nighthawk: 1228 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64105
With readers from: 11:11 Press, Beauty School Editions, Conduit, Doublecross Press, Fonograf Editions, Game Over Books, and Garden-Door Press: Readers: Jeff Alessandrelli, Paula Cisewski, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, S. Brook Corfman, Mike Corrao, Evan Gray, Krystal Languell, Haley Lasché, Trey Moody, Vi Khi Nao, Urayoán Noel, Carter St. Hogan*, Danika Stegeman, Kendra Sullivan Edwin Torres
2023 EVENT/TRAVEL CALENDAR
12.29.23 --- Iowa City, IA
12.26.23 ---12.28.23: Chattanooga, TN
12.7.23 ---12.18.23: Las Vegas, NV
11.16.23: Watermark Reading| 7 PM to 8 PM, 1969 Gallery - Tribeca, 39 White Street Ground Floor New York, NY 10013-3538 | http://www.1969gallery.com/info
11.14: Brooklyn, NY
11.8.23: Las Vegas, NV: BMI | 4 to 6 pm
11.6.23: Las Vegas, NV
10.9.23: Rochester, MN: Mayo Clinic
10.5.23: Rochester, MN: Mayo Clinic
10.2.23: Iowa City, IA
9.29.23: Las Vegas, NV
9.27.23: Salt Lake City, UT
9.12.23: Iowa City, IA
9.9.23: [Margins]: Panel: "Writing with Your Friends: On Writing Collectives & Approaches to Collaboration"--- Co-authors of the novels Tannery Bay and Funeral, this panel will feature a discussion between award-winning authors on approaches to collaboration, writing with friends, honoring multiple voices in collective creation, and shattering the myth of isolation as absolute for writers: w/Daisuke Shen, Vi Khi Nao, Steven Dunn, Katie Jean Shinkle @ 1:30pm MST/3:30pm EST
8.28.23: Las Vegas, NV
8.3.23: Chattanooga, TN: SideTrack | 3514 Hixson Pike, Chattanooga, TN 37415
7.28.23 - 8.11.23: Chattanooga, TN
7.27.23 : Cincinatti, OH
7.17.23 - 7.28.23: Ashland, OH : Ashland Residency
7.14.23: Iowa City, IA
7.12.23 - 7.13.23: Rochester, MN: Mayo
7.8.23 - 7.10.23: Chattanooga, TN
6.26.23: Mount Vernon, Iowa: Cornell MFA Residency Week: 1--2:30pm / 7pm
6.20.23 - 6.30.33: Portland, OR: PNCA/Willamette/Hallieford Residency
6.22.23 - 6.23.23: Talk: The Infinite Lives of Collaboration w/ Vi Khi Nao @3pm-5pm PST
6.20.23: PNCA /Willamette/Hallieford Residency w/ Matt Hart, Alejandro de Acosta, Vi Khi Nao @ 6pm PST
4.29.23: Iowa City, IA: @5 - 8 pm: Brink at Poetry al Fresco
4.26.23: Amherst College: @ 7 pm: Visiting Writers Series
4.21:23: Poetry Project: SWHNM @8pm (EST): Eventbrite Link w/ Hoa Nguyen/Lauren Bullock, Lily Hoang/Erin O’Brien, Diana Khoi Nguyen/Rachel Ton That, and Vi Khi Nao/Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng
4.12:23: Chattanooga, TN
4.4.23: Holloway Series: SWHNM @ 6:30 PST w/ Hoa Nguyen, Barbara Tran, Dao Strom, Vi Khi Nao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Aimee Phan
3.30.23: Pomona, CA: Thinking Its Presence: Poets Together Reading @ 11 am PDT w/Ali Raz, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Vi Khi Nao, Vivek Narayanan, Chloe Martinez (cancelled)
3.24.23: Rochester, MN
3.22.23: Amherst College: Dennis Sweeney @ 3-4 pm Virtual: Fiction Writing I
3.11.23: AWP | @12:10 pm PANEL w/ Jasmine Sawers, Aaron Angello, Vi Khi Nao, Daisuke Shen, Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.10.23: AWP | @12:10 pm PANEL w/ Megan Milks, Vi Khi Nao, SJ Sindu, Adele Barclay, moderated by Amber Dawn
3.10.23: AWP | @ 7- 9 pm @ Punkhouse w/ Ceremonial Abyss + Carlos Lara, Zan de Parry, Ryan Skrabalak, Cedar Sigo, Vi Khi Nao, Jessica Alexander, Jared Daniel Fajen
3.9.23: Seattle, WA: Spin Cycle Records @ 6-9 pm @ 321 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102
3.8.23: Seattle, WA: UNDERBELLY: 119 1st Ave S. 98104 | Kernpunkt, Heavy Feather, Alternating Current | 7 pm to 10 pm
3.8.23: Seatle, WA: AWP
3.7.24: Portland, OR: PNCA MFA: Reading @6:30 pm PST
3.6.23: Portland, OR: PNCA
2.25.23: Atlanta, Georgia: Lostintheletters @ 7 -8:30 pm EST w/ Daisuke Shen, Ali Raz, Jessica Alexander, Vi Khi Nao
2.24.23: Poetry Project: Virtual Workshop Reading @ 8 pm EST
2.23.22-2.25.22: The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
2.17.23: Houston, TX: Lawndale Art Center @ 7:30 CST w/ Stephanie Pushaw, Josh English, Vi Khi Nao, Marshall Woodward
2.16.23: Houston, TX
1.27.23: Iowa City, IA
1.18.23: Mayo Clinic: Rochester, MN
1.11.23: Chattanooga, TN
1.2.23 -1.9.23: Kahului (MAUI), HAWAII: LIH
1.2.23: Nashville, TN
2022 EVENT/TRAVEL CALENDAR
12.23.22: Chattanooga, TN: Christmas
12.13.22: Authors Guild / DVAN Webinar @ 6 pm EST w/ Quynh Do, Abbigail Rosewood, Truong Celan, Vi Khi Nao
12.3.22: Iowa City/Chattanooga
10.16.22: 128 LIT | Virtual Launch @ 9:00 EST
10.3.22: Iowa City, IA
10.2.22: Atlanta, GA
9.30.22: Chattanooga, TN
9.16.22: ULL Reading at Beausoliel @ 7 pm
8.23 - 12.2.22: Lafayette, LA
8.21.22: Chattanooga, TN
8.16 - 8.20.22: SWHNM: Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel
https://www.campcolton.com/eventportal/spend-the-night
8.15.22: Oregon, Ohio
7.16 -7.23.22: Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Writers' Center
7.15.22: Buffalo, NY
7.14.22: Columbus, OH: The Graduate
7.11.22: Atlanta, GA: Daisuke Shen
7.4.22: Chattanooga, TN
6.21.22 - 7.3.22: Portland, OR: PNCA @ Willamette
6.11.22: Iowa City, IA: Porchlight Literary Arts Center/1019 Washington St/ Iowa City, IA 52246 @ 6pm w/ Katie Jean Shinkle, Ali Raz, Vi Khi Nao, Jessica Alexander
6.3 -6.5.22: Sheridan, WY: Wyoming Writers Conference
5.19.22: The Bloc @ 5pm EST
5.19.22: Black Sun Lit Book Launch for FISH CARCASS @ 8 pm EST
5.16.22: Post Road 39 Launch @ 6:30 pm EST
5.7.22: Kansas City, MO: Cancelled
4.21.22: Iowa City, IA
4.20.22: Vicki Myhren Gallery @ 7 pm: DU Collaborative reading w/Jessica Alexander: 2121 E. Ashbury Ave. Denver, CO 80210
4.16.22: Denver, CO: AAAS Conference @ 1 - 2:30 pm Denver 4: Ruins: A Performance and Interactive Literary Workshop with She Who Has No Master(s
4.9.22: New Orleans, LA: The Splice Poetry Series @ 6 pm w/Jessica Alexander, Vi Khi Nao, & A Scribe Called Quess?
3.31.22: Jacksonville, FL: University of North Florida (UNF)
3.23.22 - 3.26.22: AWP: Philadelphia, PA [online]
3.27.22: Lafayette, LA
3.26.22: New Orleans, LA
3.22.22: Las Vegas, NV
3.21.22: New Orleans, LA
3.17.22 - 3.27.22: Spring Break
3.17.22: CUNY Poetry Series: Frederick Aria
3.15.22: Vi Khi Nao & Jordan Okumura @6:30 PST
3.1.22: Lafayette, LA
2.24.22: Alleia: 25 E Main St, Chattanooga, TN 37408
2.24.22: Sarah Burgoyne's class @ 10 am EST: Literature and Creative Practice
2.18.21: San Francisco, CA: Small Press Traffic @7:3O pm @ Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia St, SF w/ Madison McCartha, Ava Hofmann, Never Angeline North, Vi Khi Nao: event
2.10.21: Significant Others: @7pm Central Time w/ B.R. Yeager, Jesse K Baer, Vi Khi Nao. Host: Meghan Lamb
1.19.22: Perfectly Queer Readings @ 7pm PT
1.23.22 - 4.29.22: Boulder, CO: CU
1.17.22: Lafayette, Louisiana
1.3.22: Des Moines, IA
2023 CONFERENCES & PANELS
3.8.23: Seatle, WA: AWP
NEW QUEER WEIRD (Amber Dawn, Megan Milks, Vi Khi Nao , Tania De Rozario , Larissa Lai) In-person event Five queer authors consider the emergence of a highly nimble and defiant genre. New Queer Weird—a retrospectively-applied label—muddies boundaries, mixing multiple speculative #AWP23 Accepted Events 34 genres and non-normative realism. Often, it presents the more abject, unsettling and nonlinear elements of speculative fiction, including body horror, dystopia, surrealism, dark fantasy and multiverses. Panelists will discuss the defining features of this genre and its value to queer identities and cultural production. Historically, sci-fi, fantasy and horror have been considered distinct genres, each working within their own frameworks and traditions. Like New Weird fiction, New Queer Weird can also be defined by genre mixing, experimentation and reimagining the narrative arc, however, is distinct in its centring of queerness. After fifty-plus years of the coming out story and the persuasive memoir being the prevailing queer narratives, why are trans and queer authors increasingly exploring New Queer Weird?
3.8.23: Seattle, WA: AWP
2021/2022 CONFERENCES & PANELS
4.16.22: Ruins: A Performance and Interactive Literary Workshop with She Who Has No Master(s: AAAS Conference with Lily Hoang, Dao Strom, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Vi Khi Nao, Phuong Vuong @ 1pm - 2:30 pm MT with scholars of Southeast Asian American literature Michele Janette (Professor of English, Kansas State Univ), Aline Lo (Assistant Professor of English, Colorado College), and Mai-Linh Hong (Assistant Professor of Literature, Univ of California, Merced.
She Who Has No Master(s) (SWHNM(s)), as a project of multi-voiced collectivity, hybrid poetics, encounters, in-between spaces and (dis)places of the Vietnamese diaspora, will direct attention toward considering the ruin and renewal of the color yellow. We propose a workshop that brings together ritual, performance, and history in order to collectively engage in a community of renewal. This workshop model is designed to excavate the collective ruins through yellow renewal and provision of care. It invites and fosters communal engagements through the tutelage of yellow motifs existing in the fabric of food (candied ginger, jackfruits, bananas, possibly even durian), in the textile of yellow ghosts (incense burning, altaring), in the ambered garment of self-care, in the generative poetry makings, and in the collective photographic and performative musical chair self-portraitures. It intends to hospitably advance the harmonious relationship between panelists and audience. And, it’s a space and workshop devised to nurture one’s relationship of self-care through communal-based nourishment.
Prior to the Conference, SWHNM(s) will engage in collaborative writing and acts of self-care as prompted by reflections on legacies of what which has been ruinous to the Southeast Asian woman and trans and non-binary individuals. Collaboration is a concerted act of renewal for both the individual, and the collective of individuals. During the conference workshop, SWHNM(s) will first share this collaborative work via brief “performance,” before proceeding to host three different “stations”: the Altar, a radical re-envisioning of the ancestral altar in which we offer and receive nourishment; the Red Envelope Station, where panelists and audience members will receive care packages and offer words of renewal to gift to others; and the Photo Booth, where individuals will engage in collective and collaborative group self-portraiture and reclaim the color “yellow.”
4.9.21: Ecological Sounds of the Vietnamese Diaspora: AAAS Conference with Diana Khoi Nguyen, Dao Strom, Vi Khi Nao, Nha Thuyen, Hoa Nguyen, Barbara Tuong, Mai C. Doan @ 10am - 11:30am PST
As continued and emerging studies reveal, sound plays an instrumental role in the health of our local and global ecologies. In thinking about this year's conference theme, "Unsettling Transpacific Ecologies," it is crucial to examine the transpacific and diaspora boundaries between sound and soundlessness, where being alive, noticed (or watched), acknowledged (or ignored) intersects with one's ability to sound, or be quiet. How are these borders further complicated by markers of race, gender, and class? How loud can we be, and where, and when--and how does our sounding affect how others sound in response, in return (and vice versa)?
Of course, there are myriad ways of sounding: through music, song, poetry, storytelling, noise, dialogue, speech, all of which have visualized components for sounding as well (sheet music, pages, scripts), including the movement of bodies which channel these sounds. Each of these presenters work with the complicated tensions, shifting borderlands, and invisible inequities latent within social bodies (individual, communal, geographical, and historical). This panel is an event for them to generate and share with each other the ecological sounds of our current moment within the diaspora.
2021 EVENT/TRAVEL CALENDAR
12.10.21: Iowa City, IA
12.9.21: Grand Island, NE
11.23.21: Belladonna: Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Vi Khi Nao, and Ella Longpre @7:30pm EST
11.23.21: Graduate Fiction Workshop: Sadie Hoagland: UL's 580: @ 4pm EST
11.22.21: Chattanooga, TN
11.21.21: Nashville, TN
11.17.21: SWHNM X Smithsonian & Djerassi @ 6 MT: Cancelled
10.31.21: Funeral: Vi Khi Nao + Daisuke Shen | A Reading + Film Screening @7pm - 10: Unnameable Books: 615 Vanderbilt Ave (new location)/ Digital screening
10.27.21: Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry Reading @ 11 am (MT) with Dao Strom, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Vi Khi Nao, Souvankham Thammavongsa
10.20.21: Lecture: The Magic of Productivity
10.6.21: Providence, RI: Nonfiction Now Seminar
10.5.21: Philadelphia, PA: UPENN reading with Marc Anthony Richardson @ 6 pm ET
9.29.21: Warm Milk/Death Rattle @ 6:30 MT with Ginger Yifan Chen, Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett, Rebecca Martin, Charles Gabel, Kallan Walters, Vi Khi Nao, Sarah Mangold, Jon Riccio, Aubrey King
9.3.21: Denver, CO
8.30.21: Boulder, CO
8.29.21: Lamar, CO
8.28.21: Dallas, TX
8.23.21 - 12.9.21: Boulder, CO: CU
8.18-21- 8.22.21: San Francisco/Djerassi
8.15.21: Lafayette, LA
7.26.21: Chattanooga, TN
7.24.27: Alexandria, LA
7.22.21: Lafayette, LA
7.21.21: Little Rock, AR
6.14.21 - 7.21.21: Iowa City, IA
7.2.21: Portland, OR: 7pm PST: Alberta Abbey & Zoom with Juleen Eun Sun Johnson, Vi Khi Nao, & Cedar Sigo
6.25.21 - 7.3.21: PNCA: Summer/Fall
6.26.21: Talk / Class: 10 AM PST
6.26.21: Writer's Journey: Panel: 2-3 pm
6.24.21: Reading
6.14.21: Las Vegas, NV
6.14.21: Houston, TX
6.7.21: Shreveport, LA
6.5.21: Lafayette, LA
6.4.21: Houston, TX
5.22.21: Workshop at Wendy's Subway @ 1-3 pm EST
5.21.21: Las Vegas, NV
4.29.21: Lily Hoang's MFA Cross-Genre Workshop @ 2 - 4:50 pm PST
4.20.21: Sinister Wisdom 120: @ 7 pm EST
4.12.21 - 4.22.21: Las Vegas, NV
3.22.21: University of the Art: @ 2pm EST/Reading & Talk: Rahul Mehta's class
3.4.21: SMOL Fair Reading @ 8PM EST: Erika T. Wurth, Loie Rawding, Miryam Sivan, Zubaida Bello, Sarah Burgoyne, Mike Maggio, Grant Maierhofer, Anna Meister, David Leo Rice, Vi Khi Nao, Esteban Rodriguez, & Joel Wachman.
2.25.21: @5 or 6 or 7 EST: Marc Anthony Richardson, Joyelle McSweeney, Angela Buck, Vi Khi Nao, Adam Stein
2.24.21: SF: THE POETRY CENTER/DVAN @ 2 pm PST: Vi Khi Nao and Dao Strom with emcee, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud: poetry.sfsu.educo-sponsored with DVAN, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network supported inpart by the National Endowment for the Arts:
2.6.21: @ 7:30 EST/ CRUSH with Ana Armengod, Luke Mannarino, Vi Khi Nao, Julie Patton, Polina West
2.5.21: Iowa City, IA
2020 EVENT CALENDAR
10.24.20: Las Vegas Is the New Heartland
10.19.20: ZOOM: @ 6:30 PST Reading/Talk with Jamil Kochai
10.16.20: SWHNMs/Accented @ 7:30 - 9 pm PDT
9.11.20: ZOOM: @ 3pm EST: Montana Book Festival: Where Is the Voice Coming From? An interview with Catherine Lacey
9.6.20: ZOOM: Dime Grinds
9.1.20: ZOOM: New Social Environmental Poetry Reading: 2 pm EST
8.31.20: ZOOM: Summer's Last Gasp: @ 7pm ETS
8.15.20: ZOOM: @ 12 pm PST: The Collectibles: Lesbian Poet Trading Cards Live Reading & Open Mic
7.25.20 -8.3.20: Portland, OR: PNCA
7.26.20: ZOOM: PNCA: Lecture/Talk @ 10 am
7.24.20: ZOOM: PNCA: Reading @ 6:30pm with Alejandro de Acosta and Sara Jaffe.
5.30.2020: Fayetteville, AR: Fayetteville Arkansas Public Library (cancelled)
5.26.2020: Lumina: ZOOM: 6:30PM EST
5.1.2020: INSTAGRAM: Bomb EOD: 2PST/ 5ET
4.22.2020: Night Poems @ 5 pm PST (30 minutes) : http://bit.ly/nightpoems5
4.18.2020: ZOOM: Segue Reading/ Artists Space @ 5 pm EST with Frederic Tuten and Vi Khi Nao
4.11.20: New York, NY: Gern en Regalia (cancelled)
4.9.20: Troy, NY: The REV (cancelled)
2.29.20: Las Vegas, NV: Neon Lit Fund Raising/Reading Event: Mir Arif, Vi Khi Nao, Chelsi Sayti, Cody Gambino, Elena Brokaw, Heather Lang-Cassera: @ 7 pm: Fergusons Downtown: Above Mothership: 1028 Fremont Street
2.17.2020: Claremont, CA: Pitzer College: 2:45 - 5:30 pm
1.10.20 - 1.15.20: Ha Noi, Vietnam: AJAR -- Cancelled
CONFERENCES & PANELS 2019
3.27.19-3.30.19: Portland, OR: AWP: VIETNAM IS A 7 LETTER WORD: Moderator: Dao Strom. Panelists: Aimee Phan, Hoa Nguyen, Vi Khi Nao, Thi Bui. DESCRIPTION: Answering back to over-written narratives, these women of the Vietnamese diaspora offer insight into how writers may elasticize and complicate definitions of one’s various assigned “identities” and lend voice to the silenced, obscured, or overlooked. Addressing issues of craft and creative process in the elucidation of trauma, repercussions of war and colonialism, erasure and objectification, this panel’s topics will include narrative approach, collaboration, hybridity, and renewing the lyric. STATEMENT OF MERIT: The topic of Vietnam and its contextual war was brought back into US consciousness with the Fall 2017 debut of Burns & Novick's 18-hour documentary titled “The Vietnam War”. Like so many media representations, Vietnamese voices are lost, regulated as background and minimized. The writers of this diaspora offer critical ways to claim underrepresented and erased histories and promote visibility and agency in response to war, colonialism, exodus, dislocation, traumas, and divided identities.
2019 TRAVEL/EVENT CALENDAR
12.28.19: Las Vegas, NV
12.21.19: Iowa City, IA
12.17.19: Des Moines, IA: Christmas
12.9.19: Las Vegas, NV: Reading at Community Lutheran Church @ 6:30 pm
12.2.19: Las Vegas, NV: Reception with Lindsay Nixon @ 6pm: BMI Library
11.22.19: Las Vegas, NV: UNLV: Diversity Data Blitz: 10:15 am: Student Union
11.14.19: Portland, OR: Reed College Visiting Writers Series: She Who Has No Master(s) @ 6:30pm, Eliot Chapel: 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
11.12.19: Las Vegas, NV: UNLV: Art Department: Student Workshops with Art Department, Marcus Civin and David Rowe @ 6 - 8:45 pm: Room: BEH: 242
11.8 -11.10.19: Los Angeles, LA.
11.6.19: Las Vegas, NV: Workshop (career talk) with UNLV's Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Organization @ 1-2pm
11.5.19. Las Vegas, NV: Life is an Op-Ed: On Making Opinions in an Age of Bewilderment @ 7pm, UNLV's Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy
10.28.19: Las Vegas, NV: Dao, Stacey, Vi: BMI: She Who Has No Master(s): Food, Memory, Mythology: 7pm East Las Vegas Library, 2851 E. Bonanza Rd
10.22.19: Las Vegas, NV: The Believer Presents and interactive comic w/ Matt Huynh @ 7pm: Art Square Theater 1025 South 1st Street
10.19.19: Las Vegas, NV: LV Book Festival
10.19.19: Las Vegas, NV: Days of Awe: An Afternoon with A.M. Homes @ 11 am, Historic Fifth Street School 401 South 4th Street
10.15.19: Norman, OK: Readings and Book Signings by the 2020 Neustadt Prize Jury and Visiting Writers: 4 - 5:30pm @ Scholars Room - Oklahoma Memorial Union - Rm 315: André Naffis-Sahely, Anna Badkhen, Dunya Mikhail, Felipe Restrepo Pombo, J. L. Powers, Joseph Legaspi, Kapka Kassabova, Katherena Vermette, Lilliam Rivera, Philip Metres, Vi Khi Nao
10.14 - 10.18.2019: Norman, OK: Neustadt Prize
10.3.19: Las Vegas, NV: Believer Presents: Susan Steinberg in conversation with Steve Woodward @7pm: Writer's Block
10.1.19: Las Vegas, NV: PBS @3:30 pm
9.30.19: Las Vegas, NV: UNLV Class Visit: Intro to Creative Writing: 4:00pm- 5:15pm. BMI Conference Room
9.27.19 - 10.7.2019: X
9.23.19: Las Vegas: Writer's Block: Believer Presents: Sarah M. Broom in conversation with Claytee D. White @ 7pm
9.13.19 - 9.15.19: Reno Lit Crawl: Title: A Woman's Work is Never Done with Kimberly Roberts Washoe Public House, 275 Hill St, 4:30-5:15 pm on September 14
9.3.19: Las Vegas, NV: Beyond Words: An Evening with Black Mountain Institute fellows: Ahmed Naji, Amy Kurzweil, and Vi Khi Nao @ 7pm
8.23.19 - 12.14.19: Las Vegas, NV: Shearing Fellow.
7.30.19: Portland, OR: PNCA Low-Res MFA in CW Talks: Vi Khi Nao and Daniela Naomi Molnar
7.28.19- 8.3.2019: Portland, OR: Pacific Northwest College of Art
7.28.19: Portland, OR: MFA in Creative Writing Launch Party : Readings by Vi Khi Nao and Brandon Shimoda. 7pm -12am
7.8.19 - 7.12.2019: Chautauqua, NY: Writer-in-Residence
7.7.19: Chautauqua, NY: Free Sundays Reading Series @ 3:30 pm
7.7.19: Chautauqua, NY: The Chautauqua Janus Prize
4.9.2019- 7.1.2019: IOWA
3.16.19-5.26.2019: Malmö, Sweden: Sheep Machine on Speed 2
2.28.19: New York, NY: Art + Life Series @ 8pm: 2960 Broadway: 10027 (Dodge Hall 501)
2.23.19: Philadelphia, PA: UDP reading: Diana Hamilton, Ed Steck, Natalie Lyalin, Saretta Morgan, Josef Kaplan, Jena Osman, Rob Fitterman, Kevin Platt, Vi Khi Nao, Lawrence Giffin, Kevin Varrone, Holly Melgard, Monica de la Torre: Hiding Place: 1901 S 9th St #306, Philadelphia, PA 19148
1.22.19 - 3.20.2019: New York, NY: Columbia : Vi
1.21.2019: Phoenix, AZ: Jeanne
1.19.19-1.20.2019: Tucson, Arizona: Casa Libre
1.13.19: San Jose, CA: San Jose Art Musuem @ 2 pm
1.12.19 --1.18.2019: San Francisco, CA: Djerassi Artist Residency
2018 EVENT CALENDAR
11.29.18: Iowa City, IA
11.26. 2018: New York, NY: Poetry Project w/ Alicia Jo Rabins
11.25.2018: Brooklyn, NY: Della Reading Series @ 3-5pm |1238 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11218
11.2.2018: Iowa City, IA
10.30.2018: Las Vegas, NV
10.24.18: San Diego, CA: San Diego State University: @ 7 pm in Love Library 430 (Leon Williams Room)
10.5.18-10.7.18: &NOW 2018 & Whenever It's Needed: A Festival of New Writing
9.22.18: Chicago, IL: Uncharched Books @ 5pm w/ Andrew Cantrell + more?: 2620 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
9.21.18: Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah: one-hour public outreach visit and lunch @ 12:00 pm.
9.20.18: Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah: @ 7pm: one-hour Guest Writers Series public reading
9.7.18: Oakland, CA: Studio One Art Center @ 7:30 PM w/ Steven Seidenberg, Vernon Keeve & Caroline Kessler: 365 45th St, Oakland, CA 94609
8.25.18: Lost Angeles, CA: Poetic Research Bureau w/ Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu @7:30 PM: 951 Chung King Rd
8.20.18: Los Angeles, CA
8.12.18 - 8.19.18: Cape Floral, FL: Home Away From Home
7.26.18: Iowa City, IA
7.24.18: Brooklyn, NY: Spoonbill Books @ 7pm w/ Chia-Lun Chang, Vi Khi Nao, Meg Onli, Natalie Diaz, and Saretta Morgan, : 99 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206
7.22.18: Ridgewood, NY: Topos Bookstore @ 6:30 pm w/ Claire Donato & Rachael Wilson: 788 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY
7.21.18: Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books @ 6:30pm with Brenda lijima, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, and Erin Fleming
7.19.18: Brooklyn, NY: McNally Jackson Books @7 pm with Anna Moschovakis and Christina Vega-Westhoff: 76 N 4th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249
7.18.18: New York, NY: CoDex Books @ 7pm w/ Susan Daitch: 1 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012
7.17.18: New York, NY: West Coast Launch for Sheep Machine
6.24.18: Henderson, NV: Book Signing from 12-3pm @ Anthony & Wendy Copper Cat Books, LLC 1570 West Horizon Ridge Pkwy Suite 170 Henderson NV 89012 (702) 567-2666
6.13.18: Oakland, CA: BOOK LAUNCH: E.M. Wolfman: 410 13th St. w/ Jennifer S. Cheng, Vi Khi Nao, Rita Bullwinkel @ 7pm
6.12.18: San Francisco, CA: BOOK LAUNCH: Green Apple Books: 506 Clement St w/ Jennifer S. Cheng, Vi Khi Nao, Rita Bullwinkel @ 7pm
5.31.18: IOWA CITY, IA
5.23.18 - 5.29.18: Mexico City, MEXICO
5.17.18: Brooklyn, NY: Berl's w/ Liz Bowen, Vi Khi Nao, Katy Mongeau & Moina Pam Dick @ 7pm
5.10.18 - 5.12.18: Clinton, NY: Hamilton College: On Amy Zhang defense team
4.10.18: Las Cruces, NM: White Sands National Monument w/ Tania
3.30.18: New York, NY: CANADA GALLERY: 333 Broome St @ 7-10 pm w/Miguel Gutierrez, Douglas Martin & Vi Khi Nao
3.29.18: New York,NY: The Asian American Writers' Workshop @ 7pm. W/ Celina Su, Vi Khi Nao, Brandon Shimoda & Dorothy Wang (110-112 W. 27th Street, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 1000)
3.29.18: Brooklyn, NY: Pratt @ 2 -3:50 pm: 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
3.9.18: Tampa, FL: Gremlins 3: AWP (an off-site reading) @7-10pm. W/ Ben Fama, Liz Bowen, Bianca Stone, Josef Kaplan, Bridget Talone, Ed Steck, Shy Watson, Amy Saul-Zerby, Rachelle Toarmino, Ben Pease, and Kim Calder. QUAID: 5128 N Florida Ave, Tampa, Florida 33603
3.9.18: Tampa, FL: Offsite reading: Southern Brewing @ 7-9pm. W/ John Paul Stadler, Danilo John Thomas, Alex McElroy, Sofia Samatar, Jennifer Tseng, Kelley Parker Ervick, Diana Arterian, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Natalie Eilbert, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, E.G. Asher. 4500 N. Nebraska Ave.
3.8.18: Tampa, FL: Offsite reading: Join Always Crashing, Barrelhouse, Grimoire, and Vestiges / Black Sun Lit at C.1949 Florida Beer Garden @ 5 pm: Readers include: Elise Blackwell, Gabriel Blackwell, Dan Brady, Emily Corwin, Safia Elhillo, Andy Farkas, Erin Fleming, Michael Martone, Vi Khi Nao, Chet'la Sebree, Chris Tonelli
3.8.18: Tampa, FL: AWP: Offsite reading: FC2 Flash Reading @ 7 pm: Featured readers include Aimee Parkison, Sarah Blackman, George Choundas, Vi Khi Nao, Michael Mejia, Jennifer Natalya Fink, Steve Tomasula, Hilary Plum, and Joanna Ruocco.
3.7.18: Tampa, FL: AWP: ARRIVAL
2.24.18: Seattle, WA: @ 7pm. W/ Dao Strom & Stacey Tran.
2.23.18: Portland, OR: Radio interview w/ David @ 3pm
2.23.18: Portland, OR: @ 6pm. W/ Dao Strom & Stacey Tran.
2.17.18: Las Vegas, NV: Writer's Block @ 7 pm. W/ Noah Cicero & Maegan Poland
CONFERENCES & PANELS 2018
10.6.18: Notre Dame, IN: “We, Too:” Fiction Writers Reclaiming Violence Under a Hostile Political Regime w/ Carol Guess, Courtney Morgan, Jennifer Fink, Sarah Blackman & Vi Khi Nao @ University of Notre Dame.
3.10.18: Tampa, FL: Teaching / Sex / Writing: Number: S256: Date/Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm. W/ Andrea Lawlor, Samuel Ace, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Myriam Gurba. Location: Room 17, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
3.9.18: Tampa, FL: AWP: Writing the Frail Essay: Number: F253 Date/Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm: W/ Caren Beilin, Amina Cain, Carolina Ebeid, Shamala Gallagher. Location: Room 3 & 4, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor
1.18.17: Kelly Writer's House, University of Pennsylvania"Marginalized Work, Innovative Critique" Panel w/ Caren Beilin, Matt Jakubowski, Steven Dunn, & Vi Khi NaoHosted by Full Stop magazine (and in celebration of its first print anthology), writers and editors across presses will discuss innovative dynamics in contemporary criticism. Traditional modes of literary critique might include a summary of a novel's plot, maybe a recommendation (or not) to purchase. But how might experimental forms of criticism better serve marginalized works, including translations and nontraditional writing by women, especially when these works often eschew plot or a patriarchal (logical, hierarchical) ordering of meaning/event? What kinds of radical tactics must be performed in the criticism of new radical work?
2.9.17: AWP: Washington, DCR202. Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Pressw/ Evelina Galang, Vi Khi Nao, Bao Phi, and Karen Yamashita
3.31.17: Montclair State University: Poetry and Politics PanelW/ Jonterri Gadson, Vi Khi Nao, Vincent Toro, and Tika Lark
4.23.17: Los Angeles Times Festival of BooksFiction: The New New Narrative, Conversation 2052 Panel w/ Wendy C. Ortiz, Vi Khi Nao, Matias Viegener, & Agatha french
2017 EVENT CALENDAR
Jan 18.2017: Philadelphia, PA: The Arts Cafe/UPENN @6pm w/ Steven Dunn with Caren Beilin, Hilary Plum, Vi Khi Nao, and Matt Jakubowski
Jan 20.2017: Los Angeles, CA: Book Show in Highland Park on Friday @ 7:30pm/Vermin on the Mount Reading Series w/ Jade Chang, Dana Johnson, Joshua Mohr, Vi Khi Nao, Lou Rowan, Melissa Yancy & your host Jim Ruland
Jan 21. 2017: San Diego, CA: 3rdSpace @ 7pm/ Vermin on the Mount Reading Series w/ Jade Chang, Heather Fowler, Joshua Mohr, Vi Khi Nao, Louis Rowan, David Tomlinson, Margaret Wappler & your host Jim Ruland
Jan 23. 2017: Sin City, NV
Jan 25. 2017: Airspace @ 7pm
Jan 27. 2017: New York, NY: East Village @ 6pm with Daniela
Jan 29.2017: Stillwater, OK: OSU: Dinner with Aimee/OSU students
Jan 30.2017: Stillwater, OK: OSU: Edmon Low Browsing Room @ 6pm
Feb 4. 2017: Durham, NC: Duke University's Little Corner Reading Series @ 8 pm
Feb 8.2017: Washington, DC: AWP
Feb 9.2017: Washington, DC: AWP: 1:30- 2:45 pm: Marquis Salon 3 & 4, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Two
Feb 9.2017: Washington, DC: AWP: 9-11 pm: Join Nightboat Books & Belladonna* for an offsite reading at DC Arts Center w/ readings by authors :Samiya Bashir, Brynne Rebele-Henry, Jared Stanley, Vi Khi Nao, Melissa Buzzeo, Gracie Leavitt, John Keene, Mahogany Browne, Jennifer Firestone, Caroline Crumpacker, E. Tracy Grinnell, Laura Moriarty, Rosamond S. King. DC Arts Center: 2438 18TH STREET NW, WASHINGTON DC 20009
Feb 11.2017: Washington, DC: AWP: Rhizome @8pm: Please join Action Books, Calamari Press, Per Second Press, and Tarpaulin Sky Press at Rhizome for readings featuring: Nat Baldwin, Claire Donato, Johannes Göransson, Elizabeth Hall, Brandon Hobson, Robert Lopez, Vi Khi Nao Julie Reverb, Joanna Ruocco, Abe Smith, Aaron Apps, Valerie Hsiung, Amy King
Mar 3. 2017: Cambridge, MA: Dire Reading Series @ 7pm: 541 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE w/ Elizabeth Searle, Vi Khi Nao, Adam Scheffler
Mar 10.2017: San Francisco, CA: Alley Cat Books: 3036 24th St @ 7pm w/Alli Warren & Jared Stanley Book Launch w/ Vi Khi Nao
Mar 16.2017: New York, NY: WordHack: Babycastles (137 West 14th St., Floor 2) @ 8pm w/ Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Vi Khi Nao, David Bering
Mar 17.2017: Philadelphia, PA: Frank O'Hara's Last Lover: Sam's Morning Glory on 9th & Fitzwater @7:30 w/ Jasmine Gibson, Sophia Dahlin, Vi Khi Nao, Jason Mitchell
Mar 21.2017: Dedham, MA: The Mother Brook Literary Series: 123 High Street @ 7pm w/ John Paul Stadler & Vi Khi Nao
Mar 23.2017: Philadelphia, PA: Caren Beilin's class @ 3pm
Mar 25.2017: Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books @ 6pm w/ Marc Anthony Richardson & Vi Khi Nao
Mar 31.2017: Montclair, NJ: Montclair State University @ 2:30pm: Poetry and Politics panel featuring Jonterri Gadson, Teka-Lark Lo, Vi Khi Nao, and Vincent Toro. Moderated by Claudia Cortese.
Mar 31.2017: Brooklyn, NY: Berl's @ 7pm w/ Dia Felix in celebration of YOU YOU YOU, Ana Božičević, Vi Khi Nao, Anna Joy Springer,
April 3.2017: Tucson, AZ: Spork Storefront: 2229 E. Broadway Blvd. w/ Marty Cain, Michael Martin Shea, Vi Khi Nao @7pm
April 4.2017: Las Vegas, NV: Writer's Block: 1020 Fremont St #100 w/ Marty Cain, Michael Martin Shea, Vi Khi Nao, Mark Cirino, Hanna Andrews, Christine Bettis
April 7-9.2017:High desert near Joshua Tree in Southern California
April 15.2017: Denver, CO: Innisfree: 1301 Pennsylvania Ave @ Elizabeth Hall, Vi Khi Nao, Caroline Swanee Swanson, Steven Dunn
April 22.2017: Washington, DC: Writers Connected Conference
April 23.2017: Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Fiction: The New Avant Garde Sunday | 4/23/2017 12 PM in Salvatori Computer Science Center 101
April 26.2017: New York, NY: Nel
May 8. 2017: Brooklyn, NY: Powerhouse Arena: No Tokens: 7-9 PM in Dumbo, Brooklyn
May 8. 2017: Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Public Library: Belladonna Series @ 7-8:30pm w/ Susan Briante, Caroline Crumpacker, Vi Khi Nao & Sarah Riggs
May 10.2017: New York, NY: Book Culture: 450 Columbus Ave w/ Tetman Callis, Amanda Goldblatt, Vi Khi Nao, and Kathryn Scanlan
May 20.2017: Philadelphia, PA: Giovanni's Room bookstore @ 6:30pm
Jun 12.2017: New York, NY: NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts: 566 LaGuardia Pl @ 7pm
Aug 25.2017: Los Angeles, CA: Other Books: 2006 E Cesar E Chavez Avenue @7pm w/ Elizabeth Hall, Myriam Gurba, Danielle Pafunda, Vi Khi Nao
Oct 18-21.2017: Bangor, ME: University of Maine
Oct 25. 2017: New York City, NY: Film screening "Fleshly Squeezed" @ 11:55am to 1:30pm
Oct 27. 2017: New York City, NY: Bureau of General Services- @ 7 to 9 pmQueer Division The LGBT Center 208 W. 13th Street, Room 210 N with/ Alexis Clements, Amber Carpenter-Sanford, Tara Shea, Burke Joan Larkin, Vi Khi Nao, Sarah Fonseca, Julie R. Enszer, Ayasha Guerin, Red Washburn, Jenny Factor, Sarah Sarai will celebrate Sinister Wisdom's 106th issue: The Lesbian Body.
Oct 30.2017: Philadelphia, PA: Kelly Writers House @ 6pm w/ Marc Anthony Richardson, Raquel Salas Rivera, Caren Beilin, Vi Khi Nao, Elias Rodrigues
2016 EVENT CALENDAR
Feb 4. 2016: South Bend, IN: Notre Dame McKenna Hall
April 1. 2016: Los Angeles, CA: Poetic Research Bureau w/ Kate Durbin, Brenda Iijima, Orlando White, Josef Kaplan, Syd Staiti, Mathew Timmons, Vi Khi Nao, Eric Sneathen, Lauren Levin, Melissa Buzzeo
May 3. 2016: Iowa City, IA: Prairie Lights
Jun 10. 2016 : Providence, RI: Tommy's Place w/ Claire Donato, Mark Baumer, Vi Khi Nao, and Danniel Schoonebeek
June 23.2016: Brooklyn, NY: Berl's w/ Vi Khi Nao, Andrew Durbin & Diana Sue Hamilton
Aug 5. 2016: New York, NY: Secret Garden w/ Sean Mullins (our valliant Red Hood riding thru town)
Vi Khi Nao (mysterious mistress w heart on her sleeve)
Satchel Lee (maiden Satchy Lewie testing new waters)
Monica Terrero (humble knight on important quest)
Kevin Aranibar (young lord of great potential)
Patricia Ellah (sweet sweet princess)
Aug 9. 2016 : Brooklyn, NY: Unnameable Books
Aug 12. 2016: Brooklyn, NY: Berl's w/ Claire Donato, Vi Khi Nao, Ian Hatcher & Valerie Hsiung
Aug 23.2016: Brooklyn, NY: 61 Local: Ladies of the Witching Hour w/ Hilary Leichter, Rita Bullwinkel, Rebekah Bergman, Vi Khi Nao
Aug 27. 2016: Durham, NC: Invisible Bear Launch Party, Volume 2: The Shed w/ Oluwatomisin Oredein, Ryan Simmons, Vi Khi Nao, Eli Viszk
Sep 10. 2016: Providence, RI: Ada @ 6- 9 pm w/ Claire Donato & Vi Khi Nao
Sep 16. 2016: Cambridge, MA: Outpost 186: Jessica Bozek & SMALL ANIMAL PROJECT reading series presents new work from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Vi Khi Nao, Beth Steidle
Sep 17. 2016: Burlington, VT: Dudley H. Davis Center
Sep 18.2016: Montreal, Quebec: Katy Mongeau
Sep 30.2016: New York, NY: Vacancy Project: Cixous 72 Reading 02 @ 8pm w/ Alex Patrick Dyck, Chrissy Jones, Katy Mongeau, Dave Morse, Vi Khi Nao, Asha Sheshadri
Oct 14.2016: Amherst, MA: A3 Gallery: 28 Amity St. 1D, Amherst, MA @7pm w/ Jessica O Marsh & Vi Khi Nao
Oct 21.2016: Brooklyn, NY: 163 Hawthorn St. @7pm w/ Emji Spero, Vi Khi Nao, Cornelia Barber
Oct 27.2016: Brooklyn, NY: Pratt @ 2pm
Oct 27. 2016: Brooklyn, NY: Molasses Books @8pm w/ Claire Donato, Amy King, Vi Khi Nao, Laura Warman, Elizabeth Hall
Oct 28. 2016: New York, NY: St. Marks Church in the East Village @8pm w/ Jason P. Smith & Vi Khi Nao
Nov 1. 2016: Providence, RI: Brown Bookstore @6pm
Nov 3. 2016: Durham, NC: EV
Nov 9.2016: Providence, RI: CD Wright memorial
Nov 13.2016: NY, NY: Hudson View Gardens, West 183rd Street & Pinehurst Ave. @5pm w/ Molly Rose Quinn, Vi Khi Nao, Alison Prine
Nov 16.2016: Iowa City, IA: Prairie Lights @ 7pm
Nov 17. 2016: Rock Island, IL: Rozz Tox @8pm w/ Holly Amos & Vi Khi Nao
Nov 30.2016: San Diego, CA: UCSD: Ben Doller & Sandra Doller: SME Performance Space @4:30pm
Dec 1. 2016: San Diego, CA: morning chat with grad students
Dec 1. 2016: San Diego, CA: CSUSM @ 7pm: Ben Doller & Sandra Doller
Dec 2. 2016: San Diego, CA: Coffee with students @ 10 am
Dec 3. 2016: Los Angeles, CA: Pop Hop @ 7pm w/Amina Cain, Myriam Gurba, Elizabeth Hall, Vi Khi Nao
Dec 4. 2016: San Diego, CA: Non-Standard Lit @ 5pm w/Brian Blanchfield, Vi Khi Nao, & Hari Alluri
Dec 6. 2016: Sacramento, CA: Sac State: Library Gallery @ 6:30pm
Dec 8. 2016: New York, NY: Red Room at KGB Bar @7pm w/ Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, Danniel Schoonebeek, Vi Khi Nao
Dec 10. 2016:Portland, OR: Mother Foucault w/ Emily Carr, Vi Khi Nao, Valerie Hsiung @ 7pm
Dec 11.2016: Seattle, WA: Common Area Maintenance/ Margin Shift @ 7pm w/ Valerie Hsiung, Vi Khi Nao, Ken White, Prageeta Sharma, Corinna Rosendahl
Dec 13.2016: Las Vegas, NV: EV