'Devika Brendon is an academic, teacher, editor, reviewer and creative writer. Her poetry and short stories have been published in academic and literary journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka, Australia, India and Italy. She published her first book of poetry at the age of 16, and was awarded the Sydney Union Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Memorial Prize for Poetry at the University of Sydney. Devika founded the ‘English Only’ teaching academy in 2001, and teaches Language and Literature to students studying the O-Level and A-Level syllabus in Sri Lanka and Australia.' (Source : Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr)
