SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA is the author of four poetry books, and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury (U.K.). Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Granta. She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand and was raised and educated in Toronto where she now lives.
