S. J. Sindu

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]