Hasanthika Sirisena
Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]
Hasanthika Sirisena
Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]
Profile
Hasanthika Sirisena’s work has been anthologized in This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017), in Every Day People: The Color of Life (Atria Books, 2018), and has been named notable by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Hasanthika is faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Susquehanna University and serves as a prose editor at Tupelo Books.
Their short story collection The Other One won the Juniper Prize and was released in 2016 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Their essay collection Dark Tourist (Mad Creek Books 2021) won the Gournay Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
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Education
MFA - Creative Writing | City College of New York
MA - Educational Communication & Technology | New York University
BA - Philosophy | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BFA | School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MA - Educational Communication & Technology | New York University
BA - Philosophy | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
BFA | School of the Art Institute of Chicago