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.

Contact

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Education

MFA - Creative Writing | City College of New York

MA - Educational Communication & Technology | NYU

BA - Philosophy | UNC Chapel Hill

BFA | SAIC

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Ellen Lesser

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

Tarfia Faizullah

Faculty, MFA in Writing [Poetry], Visiting Poet, Summer 2016

Chachi Hauser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Fernando A. Flores

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Sue William Silverman

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