De Silva is a Sri Lankan Pākehā writer and creative based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She co-hosts podcast and video series Conversations With My Immigrant Parents and acts for stage and television. An excerpt of her essay ‘Mitzi’ was published in A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (2021). The manuscript of her first novel, Amma, won the inaugural Crystal Arts Trust Prize, worth $10,000.