Speaking Engagements

I am an award-winning author of the novels Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post). My work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, I’ve also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and am presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. I am McKnight Presidential Fellow and teach at the University of Minnesota.

You can learn more about me here and you can familiarize with a selection of places I’ve spoken and read here.

Interested in booking me? Reach out via the form below. For all other inquiries, please use my contact form.

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