Cheran is a poet and journalist based in Toronto. Born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Cheran was the deputy editor of the Saturday Review, the only independent English language weekly in Sri Lanka between 1981 and 1987. Cheran’s published anthologies include: The Second Sunrise, The Lord of Death, The Song of Mirage, The Procession of Skeletons, At the Time of Burning and Now, in the Ceaseless Flow: Hundred Poems by Cheran. Cheran was the editor of We’ll Live Amidst Death, an anthology of Tamil resistance poetry published in 1985 and 1997 in Sri Lanka and India. Cheran’s poetry has been translated into English, German, Sinhala, Kannada and Dutch. For the past ten years Cheran has been an editor of Sarinihar, a Tamil language fortnightly newspaper dedicated to uncensored coverage of the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka.