Zahid Rafiq /

Zahid Rafiq is a writer from Kashmir, who is at present a Teaching Fellow in the Humanities at Bard College. He is working on a collection of short stories. Before turning to fiction, Rafiq was a journalist for several years, reporting mostly from Kashmir. He completed his BA at Kashmir University and studied journalism as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He recently completed his MFA in Fiction at Cornell University.