Ather Zia

Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, columnist, and short fiction writer. She teaches at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley, and is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (2019); co-editor of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (2018) and of A Desolation called Peace (2019). She has also published a book of poetry, The Frame (1999) and another is forthcoming. A widely published columnist, Ather is founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region.