Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, literary critic, and political analyst based in Houston, Texas, who graduated from Harvard University with a major in economics and the social sciences. He is the author of multiple books including the short story collections Anatolia and Other Stories (2009) and The Fifth Lash and Other Stories (2012), the poetry collection My Tranquil War and Other Poems (2012), and the novel Karachi Raj (2013). Shivani is a winner of a 2012 Pushcart Prize and a member of the National Book Critics Circle.