Nay Saysourinho

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

black and white photo of an Asian woman holding an acetate sheet with a tree design over her face

pronunciation

nei · saï · sooree · no

pronouns

she · her · hers

Biography

Nay Saysourinho is a writer, visual artist and recipient of a 2023 Baldwin for the Arts Fellowship. She was previously a Rona Jaffe Fellow at MacDowell and a Short Fiction Scholar at Tin House Workshop. 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 Associate Fellowship from Yale and has received support from Kundiman, the Writers Grotto and 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.

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