RU FREEMAN is a Sri Lankan-American writer and activist. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, was long-listed for the DSC South Asian Literary Prize and translated into seven languages. She has been a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She blogs for The Huffington Post on literature and politics and is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and countries underneath her skin.