Kamala Wijeratne is an educationist in the field of English, a short story writer, and a poet from Sri Lanka.
[3] After her early education at Teldeniya, she graduated from St. Scholasticus College, Kandy, in 1955 and from Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Gampola, in 1958.
After graduating in 1962 and acquiring a Postgraduate Diploma, she received her Masters in Arts in Education (MEd) from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya.
[2] In 1992, she was awarded a scholarship by the British Council to study her second Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of Edinburgh.
[6] Some of her poems are an expression of her resentment of war and violence in Sri Lanka and their repercussions on the lives of civilians.