Vivimarie VanderPoorten
Vivimarie VanderPoorten is a university teacher in Sri Lanka and has published three volumes of poetry. Her first collection of poems 'nothing prepares you' won the country's coveted Grataien Prize for 2007. Her work has been and published in many countries in South Asia as well as in online international journals. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish, Swedish, Sinhala, Tamil and Nepalese. She obtained her education in Sri Lanka and the UK. Most recently her translations of two Sinhala language poems into English have been published in the journal "Adda" published by the Commonwealth Foundation. More information about Vivimarie and some of her poems can be found at vivimairev.blogspot.com
Nikita Gill
One of the most successful 'instapoets' of the day, Nikita Gill has over six volumes of poetry to her name. Her work offers reflections on love, and feminist re-tellings of fairytales and Greek myths.
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Instapoetry is a form of poetry that emerged in social media, written and meant to be shared and often brief and direct - nonetheless poetic - in its style.
Sumathy Sivamohan
Sumathy Sivamohan is an award winning film maker, performer, poet and academic. Professor in English at the Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her films, Ingirunthu (Here and Now), Sons and Fathers, Oranges and Upheaval have won international acclaim and her set of two plays Thin Veils was awarded the Gratiaen Prize for Best of Literature in English in 2001. A solo performer, she has performed widely internationally and nationally. She is Professor in English at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and her academic interests and research lie in the areas of gender, dispossession, the displaced, and the fraught question of nation. In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Premchand Fellowship by the Sahitya Akademi of India.