Tishani Doshi

Tishani Doshi publishes poetry, essays and fiction. Her books include Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Poetry Award, and a novel, Small Days and Nights (Norton), shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and a New York Times Bestsellers Editor’s Choice. For fifteen years she worked as a dancer with the Chandralekha group in Madras, India. A God at the Door, published by Copper Canyon Press and Bloodaxe Books, is her fourth full-length collection of poems. It was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize 2021.