
Fostering community through the literary arts
Kick off Pride Weekend with a reading from Jessica Alexander, Vi Khi Nao, Ali Raz and Katie Jean Shinkle
Sat, Jun 11
|Iowa City
Join readers Jessica Alexander, Vi Khi Nao, Ali Raz and Katie Jean Shinkle for a reading to kick off Pride Weekend. Jessica and Vi will read from their new collaboration "That Woman Could be You."


Time & Location
Jun 11, 2022, 6:00 PM – Jun 12, 2022, 7:30 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
About the event
VI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Swimming with Dead Stars. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her collaborative work, That Woman Could Be You, with Jessica Alexander arrives in April 2022 from BlazeVOX. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute: https://www.vikhinao.com
JESSICA ALEXANDER’S novella, "None of This Is an Invitation" (co-written with Katie Jean Shinkle) is forthcoming from Astrophil Press. Her story collection, Dear Enemy, was the winning manuscript in the 2016 Subito Prose Contest, as judged by Selah Saterstrom. Her fiction has been published in journals such as Fence, Black Warrior Review, PANK, Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, and DIAGRAM. She lives in Louisiana where she teaches creative writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. https://www.jessica-alexander.com
Katie Jean Shinkle is the…