Gayathiri is a Tamil poet and Sex Education facilitator. They are interested in how language shapes childhood and how we use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize 2022, the Primadonna Fiction Prize 2021 and they were shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2022. Their writing is published in Magma, Propel, Hoax, Burnt Roti and zindabad zine, and they’re a co-author of ‘Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships’. Gayathiri runs the poetry workshop series WORD BENDERS at The Common Press bookshop in East London.
Instagram: @unembarrassable
Twitter: @GKamalakan
Website: gayathiri.co.uk