Souvankham Thammavongsa

Biography

Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of the story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Little, Brown, 2020). Her stories have won the O. Henry Award and appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Paris Review, Granta, and NOON.

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FICTION / Spring 2025

A Place to Pray

By Souvankham Thammavongsa ,  Illustration by Paul Blow

The house that the three men lived in looked like any old house in the neighborhood. No carvings on the door or around the roof. No lush garden out back, just a patch of green and barely even that. The windows had all been closed and the...

A Place to Pray