Tishani Doshi was born in Madras, India to a father from Gujarat and a mother from Wales. After qualifying herself for her occupation by obtaining a master's degree in creative writing from the prestigious Johns Hopkins University, she went on to work in the field of literature. She is an extremely successful writer, poet, and journalist from India and has published multiple pieces of literature and received a handful of awards for her work.
Tishani Doshi has published selections of poems and novels such as Countries of the Body, The Pleasure Seekers, Everything Begins Elsewhere, The Adulterous Citizen, and Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods. For her accomplishments she has been awarded with the 2001 Eric Gregory Award, 2006 Forward Poetry Prize, won the All India Poetry Competition, and put on the list for Hindu Best Fiction Award. Tishani Doshi's work has been impressive not only due to its volume, but because of the critical acclaim she has received.
The author has also managed to promote herself throughout the world and find international acceptance. She has been published in the Cooper Canyon Press, located in Washington, USA; The Drawbridge, a quarterly newspaper based in London; and even found herself at the 13th Annual St. Martin Book Fair and the festival by House of Nehesi Publishers (St. Martin is a Caribbean nation). This feat was remarkable because she was the first well-known author to be published in a Caribbean nation.
