Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver and lives in Montreal. She is the author of five books, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize, and won the 2016 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Book of Records which was named a book of the year by Time, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New York Public Library, included on President Obama’s list of favourite books of 2025, and longlisted for The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize and 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Madeleine’s novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages, and her essays and stories can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA Program at Brooklyn College and in the Granta Writers’ Workshop.