
Hasanthika Sirisena
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they/them/she/her | short stories: THE OTHER ONE (2016) | essays: DARK TOURIST (2021) | faculty @VCFA | editor @TupeloPress
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Dreamed of publishing work in Copper Nickel for years. So happy this new poem, "Jubilee," came to rest there. What an issue, esp. the cento-like composite on the back cover! (Ignore the haze of my camera, my souvenir from falling into a river in Iceland--another story.) 🌿



Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Dr. Samuel Kolawole) on the relationship between art and activism, and how African writers and Black writers shouldn’t bear the unfair burden of being expected to create political art buff.ly/4fU4bbX





Last month, STM came to Iowa & spent two days with Luis & me, including long conversations, a movie, grocery shopping, & dinner in our home. I’m v grateful for this profile New York Magazine Vulture, which includes the most beautiful description of Small Rain I’ve seen. Farrar,Straus&Giroux






Thanks 1️⃣ for including 7.13 Books’s Fall title by Linda Watanabe McFerrin in the San Francisco Chronicle Fall Books Preview!



A while ago, I found a strange and beautiful literary artifact—the missing tape recordings containing the drafts of Reinaldo Arenas’s last book, Before Night Falls. I wrote about this treasure hunt (and the treasure) for The New York Review of Books online! nybooks.com/online/2024/09…
