Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India in 1975. She received her Master's in writing from John Hopkins University and worked in London in advertising before returning to India in 2001. At the age of twenty-six, an encounter with the legendary choreographer Chandralekha led her to an unexpected career in dance. In 2006, her book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection in the UK. She is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for poetry and winner of the All-India Poetry Competition. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was published to critical acclaim in 2010 and has been translated into several languages. It was long-listed for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and short-listed for the Hindu Literary Prize. Doshi now divides her time between a village by the sea in South India, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Tishani Doshi in Verse Daily:
September 9, 2013:   "Dog in the Valley" "Last night / I heard a dog..."

Books by Tishani Doshi:

Other poems on the web by Tishani Doshi:
Four poems
"Love Poem"
"The Art of Losing"
"Rain at Three"

Tishani Doshi's Website.

Tishani Doshi According to Wikipedia.