Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India, to Welsh and Gujarati parents. She graduated from Queens College, North Carolina and an MA in creative writing Johns Hopkins University. After working in publishing in England, Doshi returned to India. An unexpected meeting with one of Indian dance’s leading choreographers led Doshi to a career in dance.
Doshi has worked also as a freelance journalist and has published books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her first book of poetry, ‘Countries of the Body’ (Aark Arts, 2006), won a Forward Prize and her second collection of poems, ‘Everything Begins Elsewhere’ (Bloodaxe, 2013), was published in the United States, England and India. Doshi’s first novel, The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury, 2010), was shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize.
She now lives in India.
