Kanya D’Almeida is a Sri Lankan writer. Her fiction has appeared on Jaggery and The Bangalore Review. She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and hosts The Darkest Light, a podcast exploring birth and motherhood in Sri Lanka. She is working on a book of short stories about mad women.
Overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, as well as winner for the region of Asia.
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