Saba Mahmood Bashir is a poet, author and a translator. Her first book was a collection of poems, Memory Past (Writers’ Workshop, 2006). Her PhD (IIT, Delhi) on the poetry of Gulzar was published by HarperCollins as I Swallowed the Moon: The Poetry of Gulzar (2013). She has also translated Gulzar’s screenplays of Premchand’s Godaan and Nirmala and Other Stories (Roli Books, 2016), along with other pieces of fiction by Premchand and Manto. Her recent books are Aandhi: Insights Into the Film (HarperCollins) and Women of Prey (Speaking Tiger), a translation of selected stories by Manto. Saba is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.