Ru Freeman

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan- American writer and activist. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and translated into seven languages. She has been a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers’Conference, Yaddo, and the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts. She blogs for the Huffington Post on Literature and Politics and is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and countries underneath her skin .