Thuy Da Lam is the author of the debut novel, FIRE SUMMER. She received a George A. Watrous Literary Prize for Fiction, a Myrle Clark Writing Award, and the John Young Scholarship in the Arts. She holds a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College and a PhD in English literature from the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa. Born in central Vietnam and raised in the northeastern US, she lives in Honolulu with her husband and two cats and a dog. She finds joy caring for a patch of land beneath the Ko'olau Mountains and working on her next novel, HEAVEN IN A WILDFLOWER.
