I’m a writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, currently visiting New York as one of the 2025-2026 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where I’m working on a new novel. My first two novels The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) and Rakesfall (2024) have between them won the Le Guin, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, Locus, and Otherwise awards, and been nominated for many others, including the Hugo. 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); guest editor for two issues of The Deadlands (October 2025 and January 2026); guest of honour at Flights of Foundry 2025.

Social media: I find the concept increasingly vile and am trying to divest from it, though you might see me about the usual places for a while longer. I have a Patreon if you want to support me! Sometimes I post behind-the-scenes updates or patrons-only essay there, but otherwise, you can subscribe to my blog below to get updates.

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