Vi Khi Nao was born in Long Khanh, Vietnam in 1979. In 2013, she graduated with an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Awards in poetry. Vi’s work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her stories, poems, and drawings have appeared in NOON, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review and elimae, among others. She is the author of two novellas, Swans in Half-Mourning (2013) and The Vanishing Point of Desire (2011). Her collection The Old Philosopher was the winner of the 2015 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

Casey Llewellyn is a writer and theater maker whose work interrogates identity, collectivity and form. Works for theatre include: The Body which is the Town, Zaide!, Obsession Piece, The Quiet Way, Existing Conditions (co-written with Claudia Rankine), and I Love Dick, an adaptation for theater of the book by Chris Kraus. Performance works include: Come in. Be with me. Don’t touch me. and Piece for Vibrating Chair. Casey’s play Dig, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town commissioned by The Foundry Theatre, will premier in January 2016 at HERE Arts Center.