Gita Ralleigh

Gita Ralleigh is a writer, poet and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She began writing after having her two children and has written short stories, poetry and children’s fiction. She won the Wasafiri New Writing prize in 2013 and was a London Library Emerging Writer for 2022-2023. She has an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Birkbeck, University of London and an MSc with Distinction in Medical Humanities from King’s College London. Currently she teaches Creative Writing to undergraduate scientists and medical students at Imperial College, London.