Tabish Nawaz teaches Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has published a poetry collection The Ornaments for Silence (Hawakal, 2023) and a short-story collection Opening Clouds, Fermented Rain (Hawakal, 2020). His short stories, poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in Indian Literature, Scroll, Outlook, The Wire, Tint Journal, nether Quarterly, Madras Courier, The Bombay Review, The Bangalore Review, The Critical Flame, Woolgathering Review, The Punch Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2021 and 2023, among other venues. You can find him on Instagram: @tabish_nawaz_87 and Twitter: @Tabish_Shajar.