Souvankham Thammavongsa

Published: Feb. 9, 2016, 10:58 p.m.

b"Souvankham Thammavongsa is a poet who lives and works in Toronto. Her parents were raised in Laos, and she was born in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1978. Thammavongsa's family moved to Canada when she was a year old. Her book Found (2007) describes these experiences, and was made into a short film by director Paramita Nath. Thammavongsa's first book of poems is Small Arguments (2003)."