Bassam Sidiki is a professor, scholar, and writer from Karachi and lives in Austin, TX. His creative writing and public scholarship have appeared in Chicago Review, LA Review of Books, Hyphen, Wordgathering, Counterclock, Jaggery, Bangalore Review, Papercuts, Aleph Review, and elsewhere. He has received a Hopwood Award for Nonfiction from the University of Michigan and honorable mentions for the Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine and the Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize. More about him and his work at www.bassamsidiki.com.