Bio

Bio

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018), which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the category of Adult Fiction, was named one of Entropy Magazine’s Best Books of 2018, and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. Her second book, Names for Light: A Family History (Graywolf Press, 2021) was the winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, was named one of Kirkus Review’s Best Books of 2021, and was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for creative nonfiction.

Her writing has been most recently anthologized in Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythologies (Coffee House Press, 2024), edited by Angie Sijun Lou and with stories by Karen Tei Yamashita, Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture and Speculative Conjunctions (University of Alabama Press, 2023) edited by Khadijah Queen and Kiini Ibura Salaam, and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press, 2023) edited by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold.

Myint is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in english-creative writing from the University of Denver, where she served as the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College, where she teaches creative writing and literature.