Kanji Patel is a Gujarati poet and fiction writer. His poetry and fiction center around Adivasi and Denotified Tribes and Communities . He is the author of three novellas, four collections of poetry, and one collection of short fiction. He has won many awards such as the Katha award (1996), Umashankar Joshi Award for Novel (1990), and the Dhumketu Prize for short fiction (2008). His poems have been translated into Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Malayalam, Tamil, English, and Irish.