Janaka Malwatta

Janaka Malwatta was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in London, and now spends his time between Sri Lanka and Brisbane. He won the 2021 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for blackbirds don’t mate with starlings, which was published by University of Queensland Press in 2022. He has appeared at Brisbane Writers Festival, the OzAsia Festival and at Queensland Poetry Festvial. He has been published in various magazines, including Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal and Peril Magazine.