Adil Jussawalla was born in Bombay in 1940. He has worked as a language teacher in London and as a lecturer at a college in Bombay. Shorelines (Paperwall, 2019) is his fifth book of poems. His third, Trying to Say Goodbye (Almost Island, 2011) was honoured with a Sahitya Akademi award in 2014. His other three collections include Land’s End (Writers Workshop; 1962), Missing Person (Clearing House; 1976) and The Right Kind of Dog (Duckbill; 2013), poems for younger readers. Jussawalla was a founding member — along with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Arun Kolatkar and Gieve Patel — of the poets' publishing co-operative Clearing House, and the editor of an anthology of 1960s experimental Indian writing translated from many different Indian languages (New Writing from India, Penguin, 1974). He has also written for television. He lives in Bombay.