Nay Saysourinho

N A Y S A Y S O U R I N H O

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pronunciation

nei · saï · sooree · no

pronouns

she · her · hers

 

 

Biography

Nay Saysourinho is a writer and visual artist. She was previously a Fellow at Baldwin for the Arts, a Scholar at Tin House Workshop and a Rona Jaffe Fellow at MacDowell. In 2019, she was chosen as the inaugural Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow by One Story and in the same year as a Marion Deeds Scholar by the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. She holds a Berkeley Fellowship from Yale and was a prize-winner at the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.

Blending the traditions of her Lao heritage, the Québec folklore of her childhood, and the work of Marshall McLuhan, her practice examines the transmission of alternate historical narratives. Her writing has been published in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares Blog, Khôra, The Funambulist, and more. Her chapbook The Capture of Krao Farini — part circus flyer, part Turing test — was released in September 2023 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

She is currently at work on her first novel. Originally from Montréal, Nay Saysourinho now resides in New England with her husband.

*Nay Saysourinho is not on social media. any account using her name or likeness should be considered identity theft.

 F I C T I O N

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fiction

 

2024

 

Auntie is Gone

ADI MAGAZINE, issue 18, FEB.

 

2022

The Golden Triangle

Fairy Tale Review, Lilac issuE, MAR.

 

2021

Dr. Manhattan Considers Oppenheimer

Khôra Issue 8, MAY

Scylla

Khôra Issue 7, APR.

Romance Scam

Khôra Issue 6, MAR.

The Queen of Sheba

Kenyon Review VOL.XLIII, Jan.

 

2020

My Wild Beautiful Bird (excerpt)

The Racket Journal ISSUE #20

 

2018

Fish Paste

Asian American Writers Workshop, Oct.

P O E T R Y

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poetry

 

2023

 

The Capture of Krao Farini

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE, SEPT.

 

2021

Fawn Industrial Complex

Khôra Issue, FEB.

 N O N F I C T I O N

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NONFICTION

 
 

2021

Fire is Not a Country’s Observation of the Apocalypse

ploughshares blog, nov.

Dear Ellen

The Letters Page Vol.5 #10

 

2020

An Interview with Souvankham Thammavongsa

Ploughshares Blog, apr.

Forensic Architecture and César Aira's Ghosts

Ploughshares Blog, MAR.

The Many Disappearances in Run Me to Earth

Ploughshares Blog, FEB.

The Mechanization of Violence in Animalia

Ploughshares Blog, JAN.

Coming Home

interactive NONFICTION, twine file download

 

2019

"What is magic but a story with solid engineering?"

Ploughshares Blog, DEC. 2019

Your Body Has 32 Kwan

Kenyon Review Online

 

2018

Quiet Legacies

The Funambulist Issue May-June