Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and performer based in the UK. They’re interested in how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. They won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 and they’re a member of the Southbank New Poets Collective. Gayathiri’s work is published in Magma, Propel, bath magg and fourteen poems. Their debut novel-in-verse is forthcoming with Faber. Find them at gayathiri.co.uk.