Gita Ralleigh is a writer and NHS doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London. She has been published in Wasafiri, Bellevue Literary Review, The Emma Press and Magma Poetry. She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates and has an MSc on the intersection of literature with medicine. Her debut poetry collection A Terrible Thing was published by Bad Betty Press in 2020

Gita’s poem Mermaid Visits the Archive appears in anthology Where We Find Ourselves.