Tishani Doshi is a writer and dancer based in Madras. Her first book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the 2006 Forward prize for best first collection. She was also winner of the 2006 All-India Poetry Competition, and a finalist in the Outlook-Picador Nonfiction competition in 2005.

Widely published in literary journals, newspapers and magazines, she is currently working on a biography of the Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan and a second volume of poems. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.