Tishani Doshi

If there is a discourse on gender and sexuality in poetry, you can trust Doshi to swim you through it, fearlessly. Even her debut novel, Small Days and Nights, is fluid verse in every sentence, punctuated only by a period. We are, however, most partial to her 2018 collection, Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, coincidentally released during the #MeToo wave. "Girls are coming out of the woods the way birds arrive at morning windows - pecking and humming, until all you can hear is the smash of their minuscule hearts against glass," she writes. You can also listen to her on lyrikline.org