Daljit Nagra is a poet and a second-generation British citizen whose parents emigrated to Britain from Punjab, India, in the 1950s and settled in Yiewsley near Heathrow Airport in London, before moving to Sheffield in 1982. Nagra earned his BA and MA degrees in English at Royal Holloway, London. His debut poetry collection Oh My Rub! won the Smith/Doorstep Pamphlet Competition, and his poem from the same collection “Look We Have Coming to Dover” bagged the Forward Poetry Prize in 2007, and it also featured in the popular BBC program Newsnight Review. The collection was also nominated for the Costa Poetry Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Aldeburgh Prize. Nagra was appointed chair of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020 and teaches creative writing at Brunel University, London.