Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator, and curator. His collections of poetry include Central Time (2014), Jonahwhale (2018, published in the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, which received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Hunchprose (2021), and Icelight (2023). His translation of a 14th-century Kashmiri woman mystic’s poetry has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011). He has been a fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa, and has held writing residencies at Villa Waldberta, Munich; the Polish Institute, Berlin; Theater der Welt, Essen-Mülheim; and BAK/basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.