Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and has taught English at the Sorbonne. More recently she has written for The Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India).

Saraswati Park (2010) is her first novel and won the Betty Trask Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Vodafone Crossword Award for Fiction.