“Third Country National,” Glimmer Train, Winter 2011, Issue 77
“War Wounds,” The Kenyon Review, Spring 2011, Volume XXXIII, Number 2 “Treble Seven, Double Naught,” descant, vol. “The Chicken House,” Bridge Eight, Jeff Parker guest editor, Winter 2016 “Kings,” The Short Story Advent Calendar 2017, Hingston & Olson Publishing (Canada), reprint “Surrender” Stories in Motion series, MTA and New York Public Library, March 2018 “Surrender,” Every Day People: The Color of Life - A Short Story Anthology (Atria, August 28 th 2018) reprint The Other One: stories, The Juniper Literary Prize Series, University Massachusetts Press, March 2016Ģ006 Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing, Fiction, City College of New Yorkġ995 Master of Arts - Education Communication and Technology, New York Universityġ993 Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillġ992 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago My favorite bookstore in the world is the Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg with the Strand Bookstore in New York City running a close second. My most recent find is Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School, which I am still trying to wrap my head around. I enjoy reading a wide range of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. In the mid ’90s, I moved to New York City and fundraised for a number of arts institutions including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where I worked on my short story collection while pretending to write grants. I am particularly drawn to-given that I’m technically Generation X-in a post-punk aesthetic and love Raymond Pettibon, Black Flag and the Sonic Youth. I teach nonfiction and have a particular interest in the personal essay, the lyric essay and the video essay. My first memory of America-not so surprising-is looking up at the McDonald’s ‘Golden Arches’ and standing in a bookstore staring at the cover of the Wizard of Oz.īefore becoming a writer, I trained as a visual artist and have among my degrees a BFA in studio art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated to America when I was still too young to understand what was happening.