Khải Đơn

Discipline: Fiction

Based In: Bien Hoa City, Vietnam

Year at Millay: 2024

Khải is a journalist turned poet and writer. Her creative sphere is centered on the Mekong Delta, the land of her fascination and the sinking devastation into the rising sea. Her works negotiate the change of land and human fates. She suggests how women and daughters imagine a liveable space after the catastrophe. Her poetry was exhibited in Barbican (London), Gropius Bau (Berlin), along with the Shifting Sand Exhibition in 2023. Her poetry was published in The POETRY Magazine, Orion Magazine, Cha Asian Magazine, DiaCritics, sin cesar, and Poetry Daily. Her debut poetry collection, Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains, was published by DVAN and Texas Tech University Press in 2023. She is working on a speculative novel about the shifting land and the devastation of childhood in far-flung places where the forces of the world economy finally reach and crush it.