Ather Zia is a poet and political anthropologist who teaches at University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and W...view moreAther Zia is a poet and political anthropologist who teaches at University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Washington University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). She is the founder editor of Kashmir Lit (www.kashmirlit.org), an ezine that is publishing writings on Kashmir since 2008. In 2010 she helped co-found the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective (www.criticalkashmirstudies.com), an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region.
Javaid Iqbal Bhat is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Kashmir. He specializes in literary theory and criticism, British fiction, South Asian fiction, diaspora literature and romanticism. Among others, he has published essays in Third Text, Springer and Folklore. He is the author of books Scars of Summer, Mourning Memories: Amarnath Row to the Year of Dead Eyes and Covering a Decade: Reflections on Kashmir Cauldron and Global Affairs (2007-2017). He is a regular columnist for Greater Kashmir, Srinagar and Daily Times, Lahore.view less