Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She has a BA in English Literature from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Mekong Review and other places. She's been honored with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge Center for the Arts. A 2017 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State and a 2018 Emerging Writer Fellow at the SF Writers Grotto, Sunisa lives in Philadelphia with her family.
Her first novel, A Good True Thai, was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize for Southeast Asian writers. It was published in Southeast Asia in September 2020. It went into a second printing in February 2021.