Haider Shahbaz is a writer and translator from Pakistan. He is the translator of Mirza Athar Baig’s Hassan’s State of Affairs and the editor of a special issue, “Against the Canon: Urdu Feminist Writing,” for Words Without Borders. Other writings and translations have appeared in Fence, Wasafiri, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, The Caravan and elsewhere. He is currently doing a PhD in comparative literature.