Sreedhevi Iyer

Dr Sreedhevi Iyer was born in Malaysia but has lived in Hong Kong and Australia, and can only answer ‘many places’ when asked where she is from. Her writing has been published in several countries, including the USA, UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, Sweden, and Italy. Jungle Without Water was her first book published in Australia (2018), the Southeast Asian edition being shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Book Prize in 2017. Her fiction work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in the US.

She has guest edited Cha, an Asian literary journal, and Drunken Boat, and was writer-in-residence at Lingnan University of Liberal Arts in Hong Kong.

Sreedhevi is currently teaching Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.