MA, 2012
Creative Writing
SJ Sindu, who received an M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln creative writing program in 2012, just sold her first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, to SOHO Press. The novel is about a Sri-Lankan American lesbian named Lucky who is in a marriage of convenience with a gay man in order to assuage her conservative family. But when her girlfriend agrees to an arranged marriage, Lucky's life of lies starts to fall apart.