Jyotish Joshi is a Delhi-based writer, art critic and columnist. He was the editor of Samkaaleen Kala, a Hindi magazine on the visual arts, published by the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. A PhD in Hindi literature (on the novels of the writer Jainendra Jain). He writes columns on art and art criticism for Hindi publications like Katahadesh, Dainik Jagran and Rangayan. Published a number of books on literary criticism and art criticism, the most recent being Bhartiya Kala Ke Hastakshar.
He is the recipient of the Raza Fellowship (2017) for his book on the biography of Jainendra Kumar, the noted Hindi writer entitled “Anasakt Aastik”.