Shiromi Pinto is a London-based writer and editor. Her first short story, Bulat Kisses (published in the anthology Notes Across the Aisle,Thistledown Press, Canada), was awarded second prize by the publisher in its 1995 short story competition. Her latest piece, Trussed, appears in the anthology Kin, forthcoming from Serpents Tail.

Recent articles

In the searing Florida heat, on the eve of a Hindu-Jewish wedding, Shiromi Pinto is absorbed into the extraordinary life-forms of Miami’s South Beach: a swelter of sex and forgetting.

Returning to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after sixteen years’ absence, this writer finds a city no longer her own, still haunted by the violence of a long civil war. But memory remains in the detail, and the rhythms of the city run deeper than human conflict.