Background
Doshi was born on December 9, 1975 in Madras (nowadays Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
1900 Selwyn Ave, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Doshi received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens University of Charlotte.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Doshi earned her Master of Arts degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University.
Doshi is at Prada Journal Event.
Tishani Doshi and Salman Rushdie at the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Tishani Doshi with her husband Carlo Pizzati.
(These new poems are powerful meditations born on the join...)
These new poems are powerful meditations born on the joineries of life and death, union and separation, memory and dream, where lovers speak to each other across the centuries and daughters wander into their mothers' childhoods.
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Begins-Elsewhere-Tishani-Doshi/dp/1556594429/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(In this, her first poetry collection, Doshi returns to th...)
In this, her first poetry collection, Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I2GC9LM/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(In this retelling of a Celtic Mabinogion myth, Fountainvi...)
In this retelling of a Celtic Mabinogion myth, Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of the world, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, the assistant of Begum, the Lady of the Fountain.
https://www.amazon.com/Fountainville-Stories-Mabinogion-Tishani-Doshi-ebook/dp/B01BK18LOE/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combi...)
In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a breathtaking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and the strange geographies of happiness.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BSN9LSW/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(A captivating and original story of family, of the ties t...)
A captivating and original story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury, set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India.
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Days-and-Nights/dp/1526603756/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Doshi was born on December 9, 1975 in Madras (nowadays Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
Doshi received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College (nowadays Queens University of Charlotte). She earned her Master of Arts degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University.
Doshi began her career in a school in India, where she choreographed ABBA`s "The Winner Takes it All" for a talent competition and shared first place with a guy dressed as a ghost. For several years she participated in the Madras Gymkhana Club swimming galas in the synchronised swimming event with a candle on top of her head.
She moved to London in 1999, becoming assistant to the advertising department of Harper's and Queen magazine. In 2001, Tishani returned to India and became a dancer with the choreographer Chandralekha. She was the lead dancer in the Chandralekha Troupe from 2001 to 2016. Doshi toured with Chandralekha`s final choreography "Sharira", performing on stages across the world from Tokyo, Taiwan, Champaner, Bhopal, Bombay, Munich, Kolkata, Toronto, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Sydney and Madras.
In addition to her dancing career, she published her first poetry collection "Countries of the Body" in 2006. Then Tishani's first novel "The Pleasure Seekers" was published in 2010. Since April 2009, she has been writing a blog titled "Hit or Miss" on ESPNcricinfo, where she makes observations and commentaries as a television viewer of the second season of the Indian Premier League.
Doshi wrote a fortnightly column about books for the New Indian Express called "Notes From Nowhere" and a monthly column for Open Magazine "Cue the Violins". She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Hindu, The Weekend Financial Times, Vogue, Elle, India Today, The National and Corriere della Sera. In 2012, Tishani represented India at a historic gathering of world poets for Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank Centre in London. Also she wrote the books of poetry, including "Everything Begins Elsewhere", 2013 and "Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods", 2018. Nowadays Doshi works as a freelance writer.
(These new poems are powerful meditations born on the join...)
2013(In this retelling of a Celtic Mabinogion myth, Fountainvi...)
2016(In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combi...)
2018(In this, her first poetry collection, Doshi returns to th...)
2014(A captivating and original story of family, of the ties t...)
2019(Poems, stories, essays.)
2015Tishani Doshi is married to Carlo Pizzati. They have three children.