Ramya is an award-winning Sri Lankan author. Her poetry collection, There’s an Island in the Bone won the 2011 Sri Lanka State Literary Joint Award. She was long listed for the Fish Poetry Prize, Ireland, 2011, and was joint runner-up to the Guardian Orange First Words Prize, UK, 2009. TimesOnline, UK, featured her in its 2009 selection of contemporary war poetry. Her book, Love Poems from a Frangipani Garden, was published by Mica Press, UK.