SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA is the author of four poetry books, including winners of the ReLit Award and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the story collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, Granta, and other places. She has been in residence at Yaddo and has performed her work at the Guggenheim Museum. The New York Times said of her, “A talented new voice emerges.” She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, and was raised and educated in Toronto.