YASUKO THANH's story collection Floating Like the Dead was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and was named a Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, her debut novel, won the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, and was nominated for the Amazon First Novel Award. Thanh's memoir, Mistakes to Run With, was a national bestseller. She lives in Victoria, BC.