Aditya Tiwari

Aditya Tiwari is an award-winning poet, writer and broadcaster. He is the author of the poetry collections All That’s Left Behind and April is Lush, as well as the anthology Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes. A TEDx speaker and Cosmopolitan’s Ones to Watch, he is a recipient of the India-UK Achievers Award at the UK Parliament’s House of Lords and a finalist for the Toto Award for Creative Writing. He is a former BBC producer and host of the BBC’s Voices series on men’s mental health and has regularly appeared on BBC Newsbeat (Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network) and BBC Radio 4 in the UK. Born in Jabalpur in central India, he is one of the country's most prominent openly gay poets and has led a life that has hopscotched across America, Britain and Europe.