Yasmin Tambiah, of Sinhalese and Tamil descent, grew up in Sri Lanka. Trained as a European medievalist, she subsequently researched sexuality and law in postcolonial states, and gender and militarization. Currently working in research management in Australia, Yasmin has also lived in the USA, with stints in Trinidad, India, England and Spain. Her award-winning creative writing has appeared in ‘Nethra’, ‘Conditions’, ‘Sinister Wisdom’ and ‘ZineWest’, and in ‘The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction’ (1999); ‘Celebrating Sri Lankan Women’s English Writing: 1948-2000’ (2002); and ‘Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas’ (2023).
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Yasmin Tambiah
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