Souvankham Thammavongsa
Biography
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books; the short story collection HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE, winner of the 2020 Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and the novel PICK A COLOR.
Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta and NOON. She also has written book reviews for The New York Times, and edited the anthologies BEST CANADIAN POETRY, THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE, and, with Alexander MacLeod, the special 35th-anniversary edition of THE JOURNEY PRIZE.
Born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, she was raised, and educated at public schools, in Toronto.
Souvankham Thammavongsa