Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four acclaimed poetry books, and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller prize and Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN/America Open Book Prize, 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 The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, and NOON.