Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s novel, Bangkok Wakes to Rain, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Written in English and published in the U.S. and Australia, the book was reviewed widely by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and many others. While working on the novel, Sudbanthad received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the MacDowell Colony.

Having grown up in Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the American South, he currently splits his time between Bangkok and Brooklyn, where he is a contributing writer at The Morning News.