About Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe
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Jirasinghe is the author of "Rhythm of the Sea", a book on the Asian Tsunami and "Trinity", on Trinity College, Sri Lanka. Her book of poetry, "There’s an Island in the Bone", will be published this year. She was a runner-up to the UK Guardian Orange First Words Prize of 2009 and the Times of UKonline featured her in its 2009 selection of contemporary war poetry. Ramya was short listed for the Gratiaen Prize for her manuscripts of Poetry in 1998 and 2008. In 2001 she represented Sri Lanka at the Medellin Poetry Festival, Colombia, in South America. She was the winner of the English Writer’s Cooperative’s Poetry Competition in 1997. Her poetry has been published by the Tipton Poetry Journal, The Poetry Journal, and by Osprery, Scotland. Ramya is also a food writer and a panellist for the Miele Guide, Asia’s first independent restaurant guide, published by Ate Media, Singapore. She holds a BA in Literature from Richmond College, London, U.K. and a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of London. She is the Programme Officer at the U.S.- Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission. She lives in Sri Lanka.