Meena Kandasamy (b. 1984, Tanjore, India) is a poet, writer, translator, anti-caste activist and academic based in Chennai, India. Her writing deconstructs trauma and violence, while spotlighting militant resistance against caste, gender and ethnic oppressions. Her extensive corpus includes two poetry collections, Touch (2006) and Ms Militancy (2010), and three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014); the Women's Prize short-listed When I Hit You (2017); and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You (2023), her latest collection of political poetry, chronicles longing, art-making and the practicing of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state over the past decade. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was also awarded the PEN Hermann Kesten Prize for her writing and work. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics.