Sreedhevi Iyer

Dr Iyer is the author of the research monograph Authentitcity and the Public Literary Self (Routledge)

Dr Iyer has presented writing workshops, and spoken on creative writing, literature, culture, globalism, cosmopolitanism and more at local and international venues, including Emerging Writers Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, Australian Short Story Festival, George Town Literary Festival (Penang), Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (Bali, Gold Coast), Asia-Pacific LitUp Fest (Singapore), Hong Kong International Literary Festival, NonFictioNow (Melbourne, Arizona), Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)(Canterbury, Sheffield, West Chester), and THE POOL: Transnational Creatives (Stockholm).

Dr Sreedhevi Iyer's 'The Tiniest House of Time' was nominated for the SPN Book of the Year Award and has multiple editions across different countries. Her previous book, 'Jungle Without Water', was shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Book Award. Her work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize in the US, and has appeared around the world, including in 'The Writer's Chronicle', 'Drunken Boat', 'Hotel Amerika', 'The Bellingham Review', 'The Asian American Literary Review', and 'Ginosko Literary Journal' in the US, the 'Free Word Centre' in the UK, the 'Asia Literary Review' and 'Cha: An Asian Literary Journal' in Hong Kong, 'Everything Around Us' in Malaysia, 'Two Thirds North' in Sweden, and more. She has also guest edited special issues of 'Cha' and 'Drunken Boat', including a Hong Kong Special Folio on The Umbrella Revolution 2014.