Tara Joshi is a writer, editor and occasional broadcaster, currently based in London, UK.

Her work spans music, culture, politics, history and identity, and the intersections of all those things.

Tara’s writing has appeared in the Guardian and Observer, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Vogue, Teen Vogue, VICE, Rolling Stone UK and more. She was the hip-hop and R&B columnist for the Quietus back in 2017, and worked as the music editor at gal-dem, a magazine that centred the experiences of people of colour from marginalised genders, from 2018 to 2022. Among other projects at gal-dem, she led on the Open Secrets series, a partnership with VICE which examined the issues of abusive behaviour in the music industry.

Alongside Dhruva Balram, she is the co-editor and an author for the essay anthology Haramacy, produced in collaboration with Zahed Sultan. It was published on Unbound in May 2022, you can buy it here.

Broadcast work has included appearances on BBC Radio 1Xtra, Radio 4, Asian Network, Channel Five News and Foundation.FM, as well as co-hosting the pop culture podcast Twenty Twenty with her friend, Simran Hans. She also hosts and participates in roundtables and talks, and is currently on the voting panels for the BRIT Awards and the BBC Sound Poll. Tara has previously helped judge the Fred Perry x Nicholas Daley Music Grant, the British Podcasting Awards, the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, the Association of Independent Music awards and more.

She also does commercial work, producing editorial content for the likes of Apple Music, WePresent, Condé Nast, Guardian Labs. She has written artist biographies for Jorja Smith, Metronomy, Chippy Nonstop and others.

Tara was born in India, grew up on the Isle of Wight and did a history degree in Ireland. She likes magical realism, Janet Jackson, and the pro-union politics of the film Space Jam.