Akshi Singh is a writer and Lacanian psychoanalyst. Born in India, she lives in Glasgow and London.
Akshi is the author of In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living With Marion Milner (Jonathan Cape, 2025). She works across genres, writing memoir, criticism, fiction, and poetry. Her writing on psychoanalysis, art, and politics has appeared in Granta, Parapraxis, The London Review of Books, Art Review and elsewhere.
She has a PhD in literature from the University of London. She was previously a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, and Lecturer in Global Migrations at the University of Glasgow. She is a Contributing Editor at Parapraxis magazine and Deputy Editor at Critical Quarterly.
