Soharn Randy Boyagoda (born 1976) is a Canadian writer, intellectual and critic known for his novels Governor of the Northern Province (2006), Beggar's Feast (2011), Original Prin (2018), and Dante's Indiana (2021). He is also the author of a biography of Richard John Neuhaus (2015). He is the past principal and vice-president of the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto, where he held the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts and Letters. He is currently the Vice-Dean, Undergraduate, of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto. Boyagoda is also a professor in the University of Toronto's English Department, and currently chairs the PEN Canada Advisory Board. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017. Biography Born in Oshawa, Ontario, in 1976 to Sri Lankan Catholic parents, Boyagoda earned his bachelor of arts in English at the University of Toronto (1999), and received his master's (2001) and doctorate (2005) in English from Boston University. In 2005, Boyagoda was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame, where he was Concurrent Assistant Professor of English. In 2006, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies in the English Department at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). That same year, he published his first novel, Governor of the Northern Province. Boyagoda received early tenure in 2009, following the publication of his book Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner (2008). During his ten years at Ryerson, Boyagoda held a series of administrative positions, including Chair of the English Department and the founding Director of Zone Learning, a university-wide experiential learning program. In 2011, Boyagoda published his second novel, Beggar’s Feast, followed by a biography of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, Boyagoda served as the President of PEN Canada. In 2016, Boyagoda became the principal and vice-president of the University of St. Michael's College and was appointed to the Basilian Chair in Christianity Arts and Letters. He also became a faculty member of the University of Toronto's English department. As a professor, Boyagoda teaches courses on the politics of the American novel and literary non-fiction, he also teaches the Gilson Seminar in Faith and Ideas, an exclusive seminar for students in their first-year of studies at the University of Toronto. Boyagoda’s third novel, Original Prin, was published in