Awards, Grants, and Patents
- Shortlisted for the Jack Hirschman Poetry Prize (2025)
- Manchester Poetry Library International Poet in Residence (2025)
- Inducted as a fellow into the Royal Society of Literature, UK (2023)
- Shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection (2021)
- Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020)
- One of the Top Ten modern poets to read by Moleskine's magazine, Fold (2019)
- Short-listed for the Ted Hughes Award in 2019 for Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
- Forward Prize Special Commendation for Best Poem 2018, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
- Was also a Santa Maddalena Fellow (2007), and Ledig House Fellow (2008, 2012, 2018)
- Winner of the All-India Poetry Competition (2005)
- Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, UK (2006)
- Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award & the Orange Prize (2011)
- Shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award (2010)
- Recipient of a UK Arts Council Grant (2007)
