Alamgir Hashmi has published eleven books of poetry and numerous volumes of literary criticism. He has been writing poetry and prose for fifty years, and has taught as a university professor in Europe, America, and Asia. Recent work appears in Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Meanjin, Westerly, Helix, Pen International, and Connecticut Review. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a Rockefeller Fellow, he has won many honours and awards for his work, some of which has been translated into European, Asian, and African languages.