Ahsan Ashraf was born in Lahore and moved to the US for college, recently having crossed the invisible boundary where his years there are now equal to those spent in Pakistan. A physicist by training and a data scientist by profession, he navigates the space between numbers and stories. By day, he teaches machines to think; by night, he finds meaning in the unpredictability of poetry. He believes in the power and fragility of language and poetry – how it can illuminate, distort, and reshape the world.