Shashini Gamage

Shashini Gamage is a writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy. Her debut novel was long-listed for the 2023 Richell Prize. She has read from her work at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Melbourne. Originally from Sri Lanka, Gamage worked as a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Sri Lanka, documenting women’s lives in conflict zones during the civil war. In Melbourne, she works as an ethnographer researching women’s media cultures. Gamage has a PhD in media and communication from La Trobe University and is an Australia Awards scholarship recipient. She has published an ethnographic research monograph with Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently writing her debut novel.