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She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, and was raised, and educated at public schools, in Toronto. They don’t want to learn to speak English and fit in, she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.

She is known for her PowerPoint videos on Zoom about writing, most recently one titled "I Am Not That Interesting." Currently, she is working on her first novel. Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of the Giller Prizewinning short story collection 'How to Pronounce Knife,' creates immigrant characters who defy expectations. Her debut short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times, and edited the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry (2021) and The Griffin Poetry Prize (2021). Souvankham Thammavongsa is a writer and poet. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, and NOON.

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 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN America Open Book Award, out now with Little, Brown (U.S.), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), and Bloomsbury (U.K.), available in French, with foreign rights sold in China, Korea, Poland, and Turkey.