SJ Sindu (born November 27, 1987) is a genderqueer

Sri Lankan American Sri Lankan Americans ( si, script=latn, Sri Lankika Amerikanu, ta, script=latn, Ilangkaī Amerikan) are Americans of full or partial Sri Lankan diaspora, Sri Lankan ancestry. Sri Lankan Americans are persons of Sri Lankan origin from various Sri ...

novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, ''

Marriage of a Thousand Lies ''Marriage of a Thousand Lies'' is a novel by Sri Lankan-American author SJ Sindu, published by Soho Press in 2017. It tells the story of Lucky and Kris, two gay South Asian-Americans whose parents immigrated from Sri Lanka, who marry to stay in t ...

'', was released by Soho Press in June 2017, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her second novel, ''Blue-Skinned Gods'', was released on November 17, 2021, also by Soho Press. Her second chapbook
Dominant Genes
', which won the 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition, was released in February 2022 b
Black Lawrence Press
Her middle-grade fantasy graphic novel, ''Shakti'', was published in 2023 by HarperCollins. 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, holds an MA from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and a PhD in Creative Writing from

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...

. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Marriage of a Thousand Lies''. New York: Soho Press, 2017, *''Blue-Skinned Gods''. New York: Soho Press, Nov 02, 2021, ISBN 9781641292429

Short Story Collections

* ''The Goth House Experiment''. New York: Soho Press, 2023,

Graphic Novels

* ''Shakti''. New York: HarperCollins, 2023,

Chapbooks

* ''I Once Met You But You Were Dead''. Philadelphia: Split Lip Press, 2017 *''Dominant Genes''. New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2022

Awards

* Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction for ''

'' * American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book for ''

'' * Lambda Literary Award Finalist for ''

'' * Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for ''

'' *Split Lip Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest award winner for ''I Once Met You But You Were Dead'' *Winner of the Fall 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition for ''Dominant Genes''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sindu, SJ 1987 births Living people Sri Lankan emigrants to the United States American LGBT novelists Tamil writers Sri Lankan novelists American people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent Sri Lankan Tamil writers American queer writers American non-binary writers