Asad Alvi is a writer based in Karachi. Their work engages queer studies, sufism, and translation. Their writing has appeared in Kashmir Lit, Dawn, and The Hindu, among others, as well as in We Will be Shelter: An Anthology of Contemporary Feminist Poetry (2014) and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness (2016). Newer work is forthcoming in The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (2020).