About the author
Agha Shahid Ali (1949?2001), author of several collections of poetry, was born in New Delhi. He grew up in Kashmir and studied in India and the US. He taught English and creative writing in various universities in the US. He was awarded Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships and a Pushcart Prize, and his collection Rooms Are Never Finished was finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. He also published a volume of translations of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, The Rebel?s Silhouette.
