Tishani Doshi is a globally renowned poet, Judge of Poetry, novelist and dancer, and performing artist of voice and movement. She is of Welsh-Gujarati descent, born in Madras, India, in 1975.
She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 2001. In 2006, she won the All-India Poetry Competition, and her debut collection, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts, 2006), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her second poetry collection, Everything Begins Elsewhere, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2012. Her third, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods (Bloodaxe Books, 2018), Her fifth, Egrets, While War, was published by Bloodaxe in May 2026.
