Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, occasional translator and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The London Magazine, New Welsh Review, Rattle, 3:AM Magazine, Mudlark, Metamorphoses, Modern Poetry in Translation, Outlook, the Hindu, Economic and Political Weekly, the Wire, etc. His first collection of poetry, Ghalib's Tomb and Other Poems (2013), was published by The London Magazine. He has contributed to Words Matter: Writings Against Silence (Penguin, 2016) and India Dissents: 3,000 Years of Difference, Doubt and Argument (Speaking Tiger, 2017). He teaches poetry at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.