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.