Ru Freeman
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan born author and activist, and is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. She blogs for the Huffington Post on literature and politics, and she is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review. She is the 2014 winner of the Sister Mariella Gable Award for Fiction, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman.
