I’m a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. My debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) won Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards, and was nominated for the Le Guin Prize, Lammy, and Hugo, among others. My second novel Rakesfall is a New York Times Notable Book of 2024, and has been chosen as one of the best books of the year by NPR and Esquire. More about me.

These are my books.

I’ve also published over fifty short stories, including “The Translator, at Low Tide” (nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award), “On the Origin of Specie”, “Documentary”, “Applied Cenotaphics of the Long, Long Longitudes,” and many others.

Other projects: fiction editor at Strange Horizons (2016–2022); shadow juror for the Clarke Award (2017); admin and judge for the Dream Foundry Writing Contest (2020-2021); admin of the Free Ahnaf Jazeem translation project (2020–2022); editor of Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction of 2023 by Psychopomp (2024); judge for the Salam Award (2024).

Social media: I’m primarily on Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram. I’m also currently on Mastodon, Tumblr, and Tiktok, though not very active on any of those. I have a Patreon if you want to support me! Sometimes I post behind-the-scenes updates exclusively there, as well as the occasional patrons-only essay.

Current header image: a 1518 engraving, Allegory of Death and Fame, by Agostino Veneziano.