Sezín (rhymes with Celine, not resin) Devi Koehler is a Sri Lankan American Third Culture Kid and eclectic writer who has lived in 12 countries — Sri Lanka, Zambia, Thailand, Pakistan, India, USA, Switzerland, France, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, and Germany — and 17 cities around the world.
She got her first book deal in October 2022 from Chicago Review Press. Much Ado About Keanu: Toward a Critical Reeves Theory(September 2024) is the first ever sociocultural deep dive into Keanu Reeves' entire creative catalog.
With bylines ranging from HuffPost and Bitch Magazine (both in print and online) to Entertainment Weekly and Teen Vogue, to pop-culture journalism sites like Black Girl Nerds and Looper, Sezín writes about movies, television, human rights, politics, intersectional feminism, creative non-fiction, and much more.
Author of the feminist horror treatise American Monsters (2011) and the supernatural noir featuring feminist zombies Crime Rave (2015), at the moment Sezin is working on a sporror (mushroom horror) novel that's The Banshees of Inisherin meets The Last of Us, as well as a Florida gothic tale that's Cloud Atlas meets Carnivàle.
Sezin is an accomplished commissioning editor who helmed a six-book middle-grade Racial Literacy series for Enslow Publishing (2019), the first of its kind in the USA. She is currently shopping around an essay anthology Bill & Ted University: The Social Sciences of Their Excellent Adventures, as well as curating Flowers Out of the Attic: Personal and Critical Perspectives on VC Andrews' Dollanganger Saga.
She is also a copyeditor and sensitivity consultant for the American Association of Medical College's educational journal MedEdPORTAL, where she helped them update their style guide to more inclusive and anti-racist language.
Sezín currently calls a hidden Florida beach town home, where she tends to a wild butterfly habitat including endangered monarchs along with rehabilitating wounded orchids.
