Thirangie Jayatilake

Thirangie Jayatilake is a Sri Lankan writer and editor. She writes poetry, fiction and feature articles. Written in a narrative prose poetry style, her poetry addresses social problems, gender, colonisation, and nostalgia, place and memory. Published in Meanjin, Jacaranda, Airport Road, Farrago Magazine, Myriad Magazine, Postscript Journal, The Gazelle, Xenozine, and Feelyourtempo Magazine amongst others, Thirangie has appeared as an artist at the National Young Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, Kwabo Festival, Meanjin and The Next Big Thing. In 2025, she was awarded a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. Thirangie was a finalist for the Tempo flash fiction competition, was awarded a Features Writer award from The Gazelle, and was a UMSU Writer-in-Residence. Thirangie has a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from New York University and a MA in Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne. She has taught Creative Writing, and Media and Communications at RMIT and the University of Melbourne.