Tishani Doshi was born in Madras to a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father, and is currently based once more in India, after periods living in America and England. She was educated at Queens College, North Carolina, and attended the prestigious creative writing programme at Johns Hopkins University. 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 Non-fiction competition in 2005.
She is also a dancer: she trained with the legendary South Indian dance choreographer Chandralekha, performing on stages in Salzburg, Amsterdam, and all over the world.
Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2009. Currently underway is a second volume of poetry and a biography of the Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan.

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Doshi speaks to The Poetry Society about her dual passions of writing and dancing

Listen to Doshi reading her poem 'Ode to the Walking Woman' (Tate Online Poem of the Month)