Dr Yasmin Tambiah was born and grew up in Sri Lanka, and lived there intermittently as an adult during the long war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. She has also lived for a number of years in the USA and Australia, with stints in Trinidad, India, England and Spain. Trained as a European medievalist, she subsequently researched the crisscrossing of law, gender and sexuality in postcolonial states, and the impact of militarisation on gender and sexuality. She has managed projects for the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and at present is an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Her award-winning creative writing has appeared in Conditions (New York), Options (Colombo) and ZineWest (Western Sydney), among others, and has been anthologised by Joan Nestle (USA/Australia) and Yasmine Gooneratne (Sri Lanka/Australia). She currently lives in Sydney.