Written by
Asad Alvi

Asad Alvi is a translator and a poet. His work has appeared in The International Gallerie, Dawn, The Hindu, and Scroll, as well as We Will Be Shelter: An Anthology of Contemporary Feminist Poetry (ed. by Andrea Gibson), and the Columbia University’s Journal of Art & Literature, amidst others. Recently, he served as a contributor at the Clayman Institute of Gender Research at Stanford University to Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. In 2016, he became the youngest recipient of the Nasreen Anjum Bhatti Poetry Prize, and was a featured artist at the 2017 Pune Biennale in India. Alvi’s debut book, The Color Thief: The Life and Works of Sara Shagufta, is forthcoming in 2018 by Speaking Tiger, India. He has taught creative writing at Quixote's Cove in Nepal, and is currently editing a second book, a literary memoir.