Shivani Sivagurunathan has been writing and publishing fiction and poetry for twenty years. Her writing has always been grounded in a Malaysian context and supported by a metaphysical foundation-- it combines the local and the concrete with the universal and the abstract, reminiscent of the South American magical realist writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Her short stories and poems have appeared in numerous international journals and magazines including 'Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine', 'Agenda', 'Construction Literary Magazine' and many others.
