SJ Sindu
Hometown: Boston, MA
Fall 2014 - Summer 2017
Currently Resides In: Tampa, FL
PhD in Creative Writing
Legacy Fellowship
Current Job/Occupation
Assistant Professor of English (Teaching Stream), University of Toronto Scarborough
Research Interests: Narratology, queer theory, postcolonial theory
Teaching Interests: Fiction writing, creative nonfiction, novel writing, hybrid forms, gender and sexuality, queer studies, trans studies, postcolonial studies
Unique Awards/Achievements
SJ Sindu is a Tamil-American author and educator. Sindu’s first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Debut Fiction, was selected by the American Library Association as a Stonewall Honor Book, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the VCU First Novelist Award. Her second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, is forthcoming in 2021 from Soho Press. Sindu is also the author of the hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, which won the Split Lip Press Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. An Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Sindu holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University.
