Anjali Joseph is a contemporary Indian novelist born on July 12, 1978, in Mumbai, India, to a Malayali research scientist father and a Bengali-Gujarati mother. Her family relocated to England when she was seven. She pursued her education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she studied English. Following this, Joseph taught English and French at the Sorbonne in Paris and London, respectively. She worked as a journalist and feature writer with the Times of India in Mumbai. Later, she pursued a postgraduate degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. After that, she worked as a commissioning editor for a magazine in Mumbai for about a year. She currently lives in Oxford, England.