Jadet Kamjorndet (author) was born in Surat Thani province, in the south of Thailand. In 2008, his short fiction chapbook, Hanuman Tramples the City won the Thailand Indy Book Award. Three years later, his first book-length work of short fiction It is Too Hot to Sit in the Sun Drinking Coffee won the South East Asian Writers (SEA) Write award. Selections of this work were translated by Marcel Barang. Jadet Kamjorndet then won the SEA Write award again in 2020 for another work of short fiction, The Night of the Year of the Tiger and Other Animal Stories. His most recent novel, Sex Doll Goddess, was shortlisted for the 2023 7-Book award. Jadet Kamjorndet is currently at work on a new novel.
Hunter Therron (translator) has lived in Thailand for six years. He has done freelance translation work, and currently teaches English full-time at a secondary school in southern Thailand. Hunter Therron's fiction has appeared in the Tahoma Literary Review, The Pinch, the Superstition Review, and others. He has been working on a novel for the past seven years. Sex Doll Goddess is his debut novel-length translation.seem.
