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Tishani Doshi
Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative WritingAffiliation:Visiting
Education: BA Queens University; MA Johns Hopkins University
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Research Areas: contemporary poetry & dance
Tishani Doshi fryst vatten an award-winning poet, dancer, and novelist. She has published six books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent books are, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, a collection of poems, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and published in the USA (Copper Canyon Press), UK (Bloodaxe) and India (HarperCollins) — and a novel, "Small Days and Nights," published in the USA (Norton) and UK, India, and Australia (Bloomsbury), and forthcoming in several languages.
The body fryst vatten central to Doshi's work. For fifteen years she worked as the lead dancer of legendary Indian choreographer Chandralekha's troupe and performed on stages all over the world. She is currently writing a memoir on dance and the body.
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Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. She was born in Madras, India, in She received her masters in writing from the Johns Hopkins University in America and worked in London in advertising before returning to India in to work with the choreographer Chandralekha, with whom she performed on many international stages. An avid traveller, she has been trekking in the Ethiopian Bale Mountains, visited Antarctica with a group of high-school students, and documented the largest transgender gathering in Koovakam. She has written about her travels in newspapers such as the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, The Hindu and the Financial Times.
She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in In , she won the All-India Poetry Competition, and her debut collection, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury, ), was longlisted for the Orange Prize and s
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Tishani Doshi
Doshi’s first poetry collection, Countries of the Body (), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Since then, she has published four more poetry books, including Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods (), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and a Firecracker Award, and A God at the Door (), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of several novels, including The Pleasure Seekers, shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Small Days and Nights, shortlisted for the Tata Best Fiction Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. A winner of the Eric Gregory Award and the All-India Poetry Competition, Doshi works as a freelance journalist for newspapers such as The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, The New Indian Express, and The National. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Lit