Annie Zaidi is the author of ‘City of Incident,’ ‘Prelude to a Riot’ which received the Tata Literature Live Award for fiction (2020), and the editor of ‘Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing’. She received the Nine Dots Prize in 2019 for an essay that was developed into ‘Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation’. Other published work includes a novella ‘Gulab’, a collection of short stories ‘Love Stories # 1 to 14’, and a collection of essays ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’.