Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four acclaimed poetry books—Small Arguments (Pedlar, 2003), winner of the ReLit prize; Found (Pedlar, 2007); Light (Pedlar, 2013), winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry; and Cluster (McClelland & Stewart, 2019)—and the short-story collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart, 2020), a New York Times Critics’ Choice and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, won an O. Henry Award, and appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and The Believer. She has been in residence at Yaddo and performed her work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, and was raised and educated in Toronto, where she now lives.