Annie Zaidi is the author of Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation, Prelude to a Riot, Gulab, Love Stories #1 to 14, and Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales as well as the co-author of The Good Indian Girl. She is the editor of Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing. A series of illustrated poems, Crush, was made in collaboration with artist Gynelle Alves.
She is the recipient of the Nine Dots Prize 2019 for innovative thinking and The Hindu Playwright Award 2018 for Untitled 1. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals including The Griffith Review, The Aleph Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Charles River Journal, The Missing Slate and Out of Print.
Website: www.anniezaidi.com
Twitter: @anniezaidi
Photo credit: Prabhat Singh