Ankita Saxena is a British-Indian poet and performer. Her debut collection Mother | Line, will be published by Verve Poetry Press in April 2023, and is the culmination of over a decade of writing, editing and performing. She is a Barbican Young Poet alumnus, part of the Octavia Poetry Collective, led by Rachel Long, and one half of the poetry duo, ORIGINS. Her poetry is published in Wasafiri, Modern Poetry in Translation and Bath Magg.