Manisha Anjali is a poet and artist. She is the author of Naag Mountain (Giramondo, 2024), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. Manisha was a recipient of BLINDSIDE’s Regional Arts and Research Residency at Mooramong, a Writer-in-Residence at Incendium Radical Library and a Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre. She is the founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. She has lived in Fiji, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.