Born in 1966 and educated in Gaya, a small town in Bihar, India, Tabish Khair is the author of critically-acclaimed books, including the novels, Filming: A Love Story, The Thing About Thugs, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, Just Another Jihadi Jane, and the poetry collections, Where Parallel Lines Meet and Man of Glass. His studies include The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness and The New Xenophobia. Winner of the All India Poetry Prize, his novels have been shortlisted for more than a dozen major prizes, including the Man Asian, the DSC Prize, the Sahitya Academy Award, and the Encore. An associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, he has been a Leverhulme Guest Professor at Leeds University, UK, and has held fellowships at JNU, Delhi University, Hong Kong City University and Hong Kong Baptist University (China), York University and Cambridge University (UK), etc. He recently published a poetry pamphlet, Quarantined Sonnets (Kitaab, Singapore), on the pandemic, with profits being donated to a migrant worker charity.