Suniti Namjoshi was born in India in 1941. She has worked as an Officer in the Indian Administrative Service and in academic posts in India and Canada. From 1972 to 1984, she taught in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and now lives and writes in Devon, England.

She has published numerous poems, fables and reviews: in anthologies, collections and literary and Women's Studies journals, in India, Canada, the US and Britain. She has published five books of poetry and two in Canada: The Authentic Lie (1982) and From the Book of Nightmares (1984). Her first book of fiction was Feminist Fables (1981), which was reissued by Spinifex Press (1993) and Virago (1994); her second, The Conversations of Cow (1985, 1997); and her third, Aditi and the one-eyed monkey, written for children  (1986). 

She has written, with Gillian Hanscombe, a sequence of poems, Flesh and Paper, and a musical play, Kali-Yug which was performed in Britain in 1995. The Blue Donkey Fables (1988), was a top twenty titles selected for the Feminist Book Fortnight in 1988. She is the author of Because of India: Selected Poems, which covers a period of over twenty years (1989). Her satire, The Mothers of Maya Diip (1989), is set on an island off the west coast of India "where a matriarchy bloomed unashamedly". In 1993 Spinifex published

St Suniti and the Dragon, an extended fable about poets and saints.