Taimoor Shahid is a multilingual poet, writer, scholar and translator working with literatures in Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, Seraiki, Dakkani, Bengali and other South Asian languages. His book-length works include The Madness of Waiting and The Dangerous Man, translations of two Urdu classics into English, and A Desertful of Petals, a complete concordance of Ghalib’s Urdu divan. His essays, poetry, translations, audio-works and writings on art have appeared in 91st Meridian, The Annual of Urdu Studies and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. Taimoor Shahid has translated The Golden Land that Bled to Death: An Excerpt from a War Diary from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War by his father, Anwar Shahid Khan.