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Ru Freeman
Biography
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American novelist, poet, editor, educator, and critic whose work appears in publications such as the Guardian and the New York Times. She is the author of A Disobedient Girl (Atria, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and the editor of the anthologies Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine (O/R and Interlink, 2016) and Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security (Interlink, 2018).
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