Other Writing | nayomi-munaweera2016

ALL THE WOMEN IN MY FAMILY SING (edited by ZZ Packer), “Thoughts on a Mother’s Day” (Forthcoming 2018)

OAKLAND NOIR (edited by Jerry Thompson), “Survivors of Heartache” (2017)

CNet's Technically Literate: Writers on Technology (edited by Janice Newman Cooke), “Eros” (2016)

GOOD GIRLS MARRY DOCTORS, SOUTH-ASIAN AMERICAN DAUGHTERS ON OBEDIENCE AND REBELLION (edited by Piyali Bhattacharya), “The Only Dates are the Ones You Eat And Other Laws of an Immigrant Girlhood” (2016)

Write to Reconcile Anthology III (edited by Shyam Selvadurai), “Losing Home” (2016)

Write to Reconcile Anthology I (edited by Shyam Selvadurai), “A Nation is Defined by the Stories it Tells” (2014)

Anthologies

Non - Fiction

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence -by Michele Filgate (2020)

PRI-The World Blog, “How Often Have You Dealt With Racism?” (2017)

Electric Literature (joint review with Shanthi Sekaran) , “In ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ Globalization is Built on Bodies,” (2017)

Electric Literature, “A Tale of Two Author Photos: Gender, Race and the Body Represented” (2016)

Weird Sister, “The Night I Ended Up Onstage With Prince”(2016)

Vida (Women in Literary Arts), “Report From The Field: Four Moments in the Life of a Brown Female Writer” (2016)

Literary Hub, “Can Literature heal the Scars of a Nation?” (2016)

One Moveable Feast, “Searching for Sri Lanka” (2016)

Huffington Post, “Writing Race the Day After Charleston” (2015)

Huffington Post, “The Real Enemy is Fundamentalism and it Doesn’t Belong Exclusively to Islam” (2014)

"A searing tale of the Sri Lankan civil war...Nayomi Munaweera breathes life into the beauty and terror of that era through her delicate, bittersweet prose. An unforgettable novel."

—Yangsze Choo, author of The Ghost Bride, international bestseller in SE Asia

and Oprah.com's Book of the Week

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Anthologies

Non - Fiction

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