Born in Sri Lanka, Tania was homeless for 8 years when she came to London. She’s been a journalist for the national press, actor, and travel writer, taught singing in the workplace, and ran a hotel in the midst of Sri Lanka’s 30-year war.In Somerset, she wrote a novel set in 1955’s Ceylon about another time of cultural chaos: ‘The Barefoot Girl who Spoke Like the English Queen’ which was Shortlisted for the Morley Award for unpublished Writers of Colour ’22 and awaits representation.A Short Story Collection mentored by Cinnamon Press, ranging from frightening to tragic to funny, is about women and girls who negotiate a world where casual cruelty is overcome due to glimpses of human solidarity.
