Author: Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani’s critically-acclaimed books of poetry, fiction, and criticism include Logography: A Poetry Omnibus; Confessions: Poems; The Moon Blooms in Occupied Hours: Poems; Soraya: Sonnets; Karachi Raj: A Novel; A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less: A Novel, and Literary Writing in the 21st Century: Conversations. His writing appears in literary journals, such as Georgia Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, Fence, Boulevard, Subtropics, Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, Wasafiri, and many others. He has just finished writing The Incident of the Missing Kanchani, a novel set in Mughal Emperor Akbar’s court in 16th-century India. Shivani has lived in Houston, Texas for far more years than he expected, including in the Little India neighborhood described in Patel Mart.