Sumathy Sivamohan is an award- winning film maker, dramatist/performer, poet and academic. Her features, Ingirunthu, Sons and Fathers and Single Tumbler have won international acclaim. She has performed widely internationally and nationally. Her work is in the areas of gender, class and nation. She works with communities in intimate and critical engagements with issues that concern localities and with communities affected by war and conflict. She teaches literature and critical theory  at the Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.