Michelle Aung Thin
is a novelist, essayist and academic.
The Monsoon Bride is her first novel, set in colonial Burma. Her award winning children’s fiction novel, Hasina: Through My Eyes (Canadian edition: Crossing the Farak River), is a gripping story of one Rohingya child’s experience of the refugee crisis in Myanmar. Her academic work explores narrative, mixed-race identity and cosmopolitan Burma. Michelle teaches at RMIT University.