Salman Tarik Kureshi

Salman Tarik Kureshi is a Karachi-based English language poet, author, and newspaper columnist. Born in Lahore and educated at Lahore and London, he has pursued his literary interests alongside a lengthy career as a business executive. Kureshi’s poems have appeared in literary magazines and in anthologies such as “Pieces of Eight”; “Legacy of the Indus”; “The Blue Wind”; “Dragonfly in the Sun”; “An Anthology”; “Journal of Postcolonial Writing”; and a solo volume “Landscapes of the Mind”. Some of his poems and short stories have been published in the annual ‘Pakistan Journal of Literature’. As a columnist, he writes on socio-political topics in the weekly ‘The Friday Times’ and the dailies ‘Dawn’ and ‘Daily Times’.