Writer in Residence Reading and Reception
In collaboration with the Department of English at the University of Toronto, we invite you to attend a reading and reception with the 2021-2022 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence Souvankham Thammavongsa on Tuesday, February 8th from 4:00-5:00pm ET.
About the Writer in Residence
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, 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, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Granta. She was a 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize jury member and editor of its anthology in that year, and has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review. She is currently at work on her first novel.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa2021-2022 Jack McClelland Writer in ResidenceSouvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, 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, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, and Granta. She was a 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize jury member and editor of its anthology in that year, and has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review. She is currently at work on her first novel.
