Daisy Rockwell is a visual artist, writer, and translator from Hindi and Urdu. She has been awarded the International Booker Prize, The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her translations include the novels A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, Penguin, 2019; Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, Tilted Axis, 2021, Penguin Random House, 2024; and The Women’s Courtyard by Khadija Mastur, Penguin, 2025.
Rockwell is the author of two novels, Taste, Foxhead, 2014, and Alice Sees Ghosts, Galiot Press, 2026, a collection of poems on translation, Mixed Metaphors, Bloomsbury, 2026, and a collection of essays and paintings on the Global War on Terror, The Little Book of Terror, Foxhead, 2012. Her memoir of growing up in a family of artists, Our Friend, Art, is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2027.
Her essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Out of Print, Granta, Vogue, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares.
Her translations from Hindi of stories by Shrilal Shukla and Arun Prakash, and from Urdu of work by Azra Abbas have appeared in Out of Print.