"It's impossible not to be hypnotized." - New York Times

"The richness of this story will take hold of you and never let go.” - Roxane Gay

"Incandescent." - Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora author of two literary novels, Marriage of a Thousand Lies and Blue-Skinned Gods. Her middle-grade fantasy graphic novel, Shakti, is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Sindu is also the author of two hybrid chapbooks, I Once Met You But You Were Dead and Dominant Genes, which will be published in February 2022 by Black Lawrence Press. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, Sindu holds an MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. Sindu teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and lives in Toronto with her partner, the poet Geoff Bouvier.