Salman Tarik Kureshi

Salman Tarik Kureshi is a Karachi-based English-language poet, writer, and columnist. Born in Lahore, he has lived most of his adult life in Karachi. Following a distinguished career as a corporate executive and marketing consultant, he has been associated with Oxford University Press since 2013 as a freelance Editorial Consultant. He is married with two grown children; his wife is an artist and a teacher of Fine Arts. Kureshi’s poems have been published in magazines in the US, Britain, and Pakistan, and have appeared in several anthologies, including Pieces of Eight (Karachi, 1971); Legacy of the Indus (New York, 1974); The Blue Wind (Somerset, UK, 1985); Dragonfly in the Sun (Karachi, 1998); An Anthology (Karachi, 1998); Journal of Postcolonial Writing (London, 2011); Poetry in English from Pakistan: The 21st Century (Lahore, 2024); as well as in two solo collections: Landscapes of the Mind (Karachi, 1998) and Coming of Age (Lahore, 2025). Some of his poems and short stories have also been published in the annual Pakistan Journal of Literature.