Anil Joshi is a Gujarati language poet and essayist from Gujarat, India.

He won Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 1990 for his essay collection Statue (1988).

[2][3] Joshi married Bharatiben on 15 July 1975, and they have a son and daughter, Sanket and Rachna.

[4] It was 1962, when his poem Parigho (Circumferences) came out for first time in Kumar, a Gujarati literary magazine.

[3] Kadach (may be), his first anthology of poems, was published in 1970, followed by Ame Barafna Pankhi (1981) and Paniman Ganth Padi Joi (2012).