Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien is the author of three books of fiction, including her most recent novel, Dogs at the Perimeter. She is a previous finalist for the Kiriyama Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and won the 2006 Amazon First Novel Award and the 2010 Ovid Festival Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Granta, PEN America, Five Dials, Brick and the Asia Literary Review, and her novels have been translated into eighteen languages. Since 2010, she has been part of the international faculty in the City University of Hong Kong’s MFA program. Born in Vancouver, she lives in Montreal.