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Asif Ahmed
Hashif K, writes under the pseudonym Asif Ahmed, is a poet and a novelist hails from a village in Wayanad, Kerala. He began writing at a very young age while he was studying at Imam Gazzali Academy, run by Wayanad_Muslim_Orphanage. He has a crafty hand at both English and Malayalam. One of his poems Caravan of Darkness appeared in Panorama Literaria, an international journal edited by [|Nandini Sahu]. His works in Malayalam have been published in some of the prestigious magazines in Kerala. He is currently pursuing his doctoral research from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad along with designing a project on Creative Writing for people with disabilities.

Glory in Darkness is his first collection of poetry that cast fleeting glimpses at his soul nourished by his experiences with dreams, fears, loneliness, darkness and the act of writing poetry itself, helping him understand the interiorities of some of the queer realities like life, death, love and the self. His poetry journeys through dissipated thoughts about God, the spirits and the mysteries of the cosmos. His craftsmanship lies in his juxtapositions of the real with the unreal, mundane with the surreal, tuning a tiny speck of an atom into a wonderful poetic expression, carrying readers from their grassroots into the metaphysics of poetic cosmos.