Sadaf Wani is a Kashmiri writer and a senior communications professional. Her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, have been published extensively, including in Himal Southasian, Scroll.in, and Inverse Journal, among others. Her short stories have been featured in two critically acclaimed anthologies published by Aleph Book Company: The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told (2023) and A Case of Indian Marvels: Dazzling Stories from the Country’s Finest New Writers (2022). This is her first book.