Press

Book Reviews: Names for Light

Ploughshares—reviewed by Farah Abdessamad

Publishers Weekly

Starred Kirkus Review

On the Seawall—reviewed by Elaine Margolin

Book Reviews: The End of Peril, the End of Strife, the End of Enmity, a Haven

The Rupture Magazine—reviewed by Mai Nardone

The Arkansas International—reviewed by Elizabeth DeMeo

New Pages—reviewed by Valerie Wieland

New Orleans Review—reviewed by Justin Goodman

Interviews

Maudlin House— “Writer of the Week,” a column by Benjamin Lee, January 2019

Lighthouse Writers Workshop—"Catching Up With Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint" by Sophie Grossman, July 2018

The Rumpus—"Mini-Interview Project #145: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint" by Joe Scapellato, July 2018

Electric Literature—"Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint's Surreal, Haunting Post-Apocalypse" by Tillman Miller, July 2018

• featured in Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Entropy—"Until the Deep Past and the Present Are Able to Touch: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint" by Joe Milazzo, March 2018.

The New Delta Review—"Contributor Interview with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint," January 2018. 

The Collagist—"We Are the Privileged Ones Who Can," September 2016.

Awards & Honors

Winner—Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Fiction

Pushcart Nomination—“Becoming” in Territory

Pushcart Nomination—“On death, on brother, on antro” in DIAGRAM

Best Small Fictions nomination—“Bliss Place” in Black Warrior Review

Best Small Fictions nomination—“Ghost Story” in Split Lip Magazine

Finalist—The 2018 Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose

Winner—New Delta Review’s 2017-2018 Matt Clark Editor’s Choice Prize

Winner—2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

Winner—Sundress Publications' 2016 Best of the Net Anthology, Fiction

Featured—The Wigleaf (Very) Short Fictions of 2016

Finalist—The 2016 Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose

Pushcart Nomination—“The City of My Mother’s Girlhood” in The Literarian 

Runner-Up—The 2014 Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose

Winner—Summer Literary Seminar's 2012 Center for Fiction Award judged by Dawn Raffel