Tishani Doshi publishes poetry, essays, and fiction. Her most recent books are A God at the Door; Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Poetry Award and a Firecracker Award; and the novel Small Days and Nights, shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award (Fiction), and The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. For fifteen years, she worked as a dancer with the Chandralekha group in Chennai. She has interviewed over a hundred writers about the craft of writing and has published essays in The Hindu, Granta, The National, The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Corriere della Sera. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, and otherwise lives on a beach in Tamil Nadu. Egrets, While War is her fifth full-length collection of poems.