Shadab Zeest Hashmi, author of Kohl and Chalk and Baker of Tarifa, is the recipient of the San Diego Book Award, the Nazim Hikmet Prize, and multiple Pushcart nominations. Her work has been translated into Spanish and Urdu, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Mudlark, The Cortland Review, Poetry International, Vallum, POEM, The Adirondack Review, Wasafiri, World Literature Today, and other journals worldwide. Ghazal Cosmopolitan, her book about the culture and craft of the Ghazal, is forthcoming later this year. Visit her website for more information. [Poetry]