sunilyapa
sunilyapa
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Hailed by the New York Times as one of “the most groundbreaking literary writers at work today,” Sunil Yapa is a novelist, musician, and screenwriter. His first novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was a 2017 PEN/Faulkner finalist, a Time Magazine and an Amazon Best Books of 2016 selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, and an Indies Next Pick. The New Yorker writes, “Fast-paced and unflinching…Yapa vividly evokes rage and compassion.” The Seattle Times writes, "Yapa's melding of fact and fiction, human frailty and geopolitics, is a genuine tour-de-force.” The winner of the 2010 Asian American short story award, Yapa’s work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, O Magazine, The Margins, Hyphen, LitHub, and others. The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and a mother from Montana, Yapa has lived around the world, including Holland, Thailand, Greece, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, China, and India, as well as, London, Montreal, and New York City. He has toured the world in support of this novel delivering lectures and readings. He currently teaches craft seminars through The Shipman Agency, and is available by appt for manuscript consultations.
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