Lesh Karan is a Naarm/Melbourne-based poet and essayist.

Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies, including Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Best of Australian Poems series (2022 & 2023), Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Griffith Review, Island, Mascara Literary Review, Overland, Rabbit, Red Room Poetry and Strange Horizons, among others. In 2023, she won the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

Lesh holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy and is currently completing a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing at the University of Melbourne. She is of Fiji Indian heritage.