Hasanthika Sirisena's essays and prose have appeared in The Georgia Review, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Epoch, Story Quarterly, Narrative and other magazines. Their work has been anthologized in Best New American Voices and named a notable story by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. They have received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo and is a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award recipient. They are also the author of the short story collection The Other One and the essay collection Dark Tourist which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Prize. Hasanthika has also throughout their career developed extensive connections in the writing community. They for example, currently a prose editor at Tupelo Press. They have been a Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Sewanee Writers Conference and been on the jury for the Flannery O'Connor Prize and the Asian American Journalist Association Arts & Culture prize with New York Times Arts & Leisure editor Andrew Lavallee. They currently teach workshops for Writer's Digest and have contacts at Poets & Writers. They have also forged strong relationships with the Asian American Writer's Workshop and the Asian American Arts Alliance both in New York, both of whom have actively supported her debut collection. In addition, Hasanthika has been teaching on the university level for over twelve years. They first taught at the City College of New York and still has a strong relationship with the faculty there. They've taught at Columbia University and are currently an associate professor at Susquehanna University and also teach at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.