Kuhu Joshi is the award-winning author of My Body Didn't Come Before Me (Speaking Tiger, 2023), a collection of poems exploring spinal deformity and girlhood, selected by renowned Indian poet Arundhathi Subramaniam as the recipient of a first-book award. 

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Kuhu traces her lineage to the mountains of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, India, and has lived in New Delhi most of her life before moving to New York.

 

She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College where she was a Jane Cooper Poetry Fellow and completed her thesis under the mentorship of the poet Marie Howe.

 

Her work has been published in POETRY, Four Way Review, Best New Poets, Rattle, Memorious, SWWIM, and other prominent, international literary magazines. She has received support from the Academy of American Poets, Napa Valley Writers Conference, The Teaching Artist Project, and Vermont Studio Center. 

 

Her second poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series, Texas Tech University Press's Walt McDonald Award, and Trio House Press's Trio Award in 2025. 

 

She has been teaching creative writing and poetry since 2016, and currently teaches at Pace University, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), and The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

 

Kuhu also holds an M.Sc. in International Economics from The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, and has worked as an academic researcher in climate, gender and development economics.

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She is also a plant mom, abstract artist, and yogi. She has been practicing Iyengar Yoga since she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis at age 12, and is a student + teaching assistant at Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective.