Tariq Shah is the author of Whiteout Conditions. A Best of the Net award nominee, recent work appears in or is forthcoming from Pleiades Magazine, Electric Literature, Joyland Magazine, Prelude, Diagram, jubilat, Whiskey Tit, Heavy Feather Review, No, Dear Magazine, and New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims Anthology edited by Kazim Ali (Red Hen Press, Nov 2021).  A former peace corps volunteer in Mozambique, Tariq was born in Illinois and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.