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.

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

David Wojahn

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Sue William Silverman

Faculty Co-chair, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Richard Jackson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Clint McCown

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

edwin bodney

Visiting Faculty, MFA in Writing