Joseph Jude is a queer writer of Anglo-Indian descent. They are interested in movement and place, in melancholia, and loss, as it influences, and is influenced by migration.​ Their poetry has been performed namely, at the Inspired Word, New York, (2022) and at the Moving Centre Literary Festival in Prague (2023). Other work can be read in Rabbit Poetry, where they are widely published, and in Cordite, as well as in The Journal of Transnational Literature to name a few. In 2024, their short fiction "Car-crash Flowers" was added to high school reading lists in Australia as a part of its wider curriculum. It is carried by Black Inc. Books, in the anthology, Growing Up Indian in Australia. Typesetting Loss, is their first book, and is due to be released by Falschrum in late 2024: a Berlin based publisher at the intersection of art, literature, and research. ​​​​​ Born in Madras, they live in Berlin, where they also work as a writer for Kaltblut Magazine, and as an educator at the Sachsenhausen Memorial, and Museum.​​​​​​