V.V. Ganeshananthan: Sri Lanka, Civilians in War & Journalism in Fiction

Known as Sugi, Vasugi Ganeshananthan is Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction with her second novel Brotherless Night. The book has also features on the New York Times Editor's Choice and The Washington Post's Best Books of the Year List. Get it here, or from your local bookseller. Here's just a slice of her career from her website: A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.