2026 Updates:
Tanya was profiled in Forbes Magazine with a podcast interview by Dr. Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin.
She received the inaugural Susan Xenarios Award from the Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York.
She performed at the Holland Festival in Suzanne Bocanegra’s HONOR.
Tanya spent much of the summer at the Yaddo residency and in Portland, Oregon, finishing the manuscript of her third book Love Me and Leave Me.
And she was interviewed by LMD International in her native Sri Lanka, where she will speak at the Ceylon Literary Festival in January 2027.
Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence received widespread media attention with features in the New York Times, People, Good Morning America, Fox News, TIME, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more.
Crystal prose, precise and calm. A profound ethical clarity. A powerful and essential book.”
- Kiran Desai, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss
A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood. Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood.
A courageous, deeply personal, and unapologetically feminist exploration of delayed motherhood and infertility. This enlightening and empowering book should be required reading for every woman."
-Hillary Jordan, author of Mudbound and When She Woke
The Cuomo Accusations And The Next Wave Of #metoo. The writer Tanya Selvaratnam discusses her abusive relationship with the former state attorney general Eric Schneiderman and the harassment allegations against the current governor.
When Your Abuser Is a Powerful Politician. The author and activist Tanya Selvaratnam on her abusive relationship with Eric Schneiderman, a former New York attorney general, and the second wave of the #MeToo movement.
(2025, Film Forum) – DC/DOX premiere, Urbanworld Film Festival Best Director Award and Honorable Mention
(2020, Film Forum) – Sundance premiere, Strand Releasing
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