GAYATHIRI

I’m a poet, facilitator and producer based in the UK.

I’m interested in how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. I tell stories that ask: Whose imagination are we living in? How do we build anti-colonial worlds? When do we get to practise freedom?

I've performed with the Roundhouse, DAYTIMERS, Apples and Snakes & BBC Contains Strong Language. I won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher's Prize 2022 and the Primadonna Prize 2021.

I’m currently working on a sequence of poetry films exploring parenthood.