Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is a poet, translator, and scholar of colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Her critical book, Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 was published by the University of Chicago Press, and she’s completing a collection of poems after the Urdu poet Iqbal entitled Janaab-e Shikva (Watchqueen). Her poems, translations, essays, and other writings have appeared or are forthcoming in various venues including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Discourse, FENCE, Critical Quarterly, the Boston Review, Peach Magazine, Reality Beach, Public Books, Poetry, Victorian Studies, Triple Canopy, Guernica, and more. She teaches at the University of Toronto and lives in New York City.