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SJ Sindu
Born
Sinduja Sathiyaseelan

(1987-11-27) November 27, 1987 (age 37)
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Florida State University
Occupationnovelist
SpouseGeoff Bouvier

SJ Sindu (born November 27, 1987) is a Sri Lankan American novelist and short story writer.[1] Her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, was released by Soho Press in June 2017,[2] won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction,[3] and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book.[4] Her work has been published in Brevity, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review of Books, apt, Vinyl Poetry, PRISM International, VIDA, Black Girl Dangerous, rkvry quarterly, and elsewhere. Sindu was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow,[5] holds an MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,[6] and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University.[7] She currently teaches Creative Writing at University of Toronto Scarborough.[8]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Marriage of a Thousand Lies. New York: Soho Press, 2017, ISBN 9781616957902

Chapbooks

  • I Once Met You But You Were Dead. Philadelphia: Split Lip Press, 2017

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Author SJ Sindu explores the closet in 'Marriage of a Thousand Lies'". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  2. ^ Punch, Allison (2017-08-15). "'Marriage of a Thousand Lies' by SJ Sindu". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  3. ^ a b "Publishing Triangle". www.publishingtriangle.org. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  4. ^ a b BJARNAGIN (2018-02-13). "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". News and Press Center. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
  5. ^ Reese, Jenn (2013-07-08). "2013 Writers Retreat Fellows". Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  6. ^ Chacon, Miren. "UNL alumna SJ Sindu highlights queer South Asian women in her writing". The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  7. ^ "Graduate Student Profiles". English Department. Florida State University. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  8. ^ "Sathiyaseelan, Sinduja". www.english.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  9. ^ Boureau, Ella (2018-03-06). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  10. ^ "2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards General Results". Independent Publisher - feature. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
  11. ^ "Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest Winner". Split Lip Press. Split Lip Press. June 20, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2016.


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