He was born in Sri Lanka and raised in both the war-torn Northern & Eastern provinces. At the age of thirteen, he fled to New Zealand with his family on humanitarian asylum. During and upon conclusion of his University education, he spent considerable lengths of time travelling on shoestring budgets through number of countries often travelling by hitchhiking and working various jobs. His continuous journeys have further evoked his passion in expressive art and embarked him on the endless quest in search of identity. He is the founding director of Ondru – a movement of arts & literature (www.ondru.org). His poetical work has appeared in Overland, Going Down Swinging, the Lumière Reader, Mascara Literary Review, Blackmail Press, Trout, QLRS, the Typewriter, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and various other publications. He is currently working on his first poetry collection.