Salman Tarik Kureshi is an English language poet, writer, and columnist. He was born at Lahore in 1943, where he spent his childhood. He has lived most of his adult years at Karachi, aside from three years in London. A former corporate executive and marketing consultant, he is presently engaged as an Editorial Consultant at Oxford University Press. He is married, with two grown children and two grandchildren, his wife being an Artist and a teacher of Fine Arts. Kureshi’s poems have been published over the years in magazines in the US, Britain, and of course in Pakistan. They have also appeared in anthologies: Pieces of Eight (Karachi, 1971); Legacy of the Indus (New York, 1974); The Blue Wind (Somerset, England, 1985); Dragonfly in the Sun (Karachi, 1998); An Anthology (Karachi, 1998); Journal of Postcolonial Writing (London, 2011); Poetry in English from Pakistan: The Twenty-First Century (Lahore, 2024) and a solo volume Landscapes of the Mind (Oxford University Press, 19987). Some of his poems have appeared in the annual Aleph Review and poems and short stories have been published in the annual Pakistan Journal of Literature. As a columnist, he writes on socio-political topics in the weekly Friday Times and the dailies Dawn and Daily Times.