Gita Ralleigh is a poet, writer and doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates at Imperial College and has an MA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Medical Humanities. Her poetry books are A Terrible Thing (Bad Betty Press, 2020) and Siren (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). Her debut children’s novel The Destiny of Minou Moonshine was published in July 2023 (Zephyr/Bloomsbury) and her second, The Voyage of Sam Singh in July 2024. You can find her on Twitter as @storyvilled and on Instagram as @gita_ralleigh