RU FREEMAN is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally. Her recent full-length works include Bon Courage: Essays on Inheritance, Citizenship, and a Creative Life, and Sleeping Alone: Stories. Her previous works include On Sal Mal Lane: A Novel and A Disobedient Girl: A Novel, and the anthologies Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine and Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security, for which she served as editor. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere.