Center for Humanistic Inquiry Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint: A Reading and Conversation

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is the author of a 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, and a book of creative nonfiction, Names for Light: A Family History (Graywolf Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and was named one of Kirkus Review’s best books of 2021, and was long listed for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College.