Timber and Lua

Lily Hoàng is the author of nine books, including Underneath (winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award), A Bestiary (PEN/USA Nonfiction Award finalist), and Changing (recipient of a PEN/Open Books Award). She is a professor of literature at UC San Diego, where she teaches in their MFA in Literary Arts. She lives in San Diego, California.Vi Khi Nào is the author of many books and is known for her work spanning poetry, fiction, theatre, film, and interdisciplinary collaborations, most recently The Italy Letters (Melville House) and The Six Tones of Water, coauthored with Sun Yung Shin (Ricochet). Recognized as a former Black Mountain Institute fellow, Vi Khi Nào received the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize in 2022. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa. https://www.vikhinao.com

"Award-winning interdisciplinary writers Hoàng and Nào provocatively interrogate language, comprehension, and communication in a global world. Their collaborative result is a polyglot showcase that combines English, Vietnamese, and a hybrid Vietlish to present 10 “experimental narratives”—a non-love story, disorienting conversations, dystopic genocide—that prove intriguingly experiential. Each is presented in three formats, intertwined English and Vietnamese (Vietlish) with a glossary, which is then repeated (almost) only in English on the left page and (almost) only in Vietnamese on the right...Overlaying the three versions together should ultimately reveal each story in full—but mindful participation and commitment will be required." —Terry Hong, Booklist