Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is Assistant Professor of English and comparative literature at Williams College. She is writing an academic book on the politics of the epidemic imaginary in colonial letters and a collection of poems, Janaab-e Shikva after the Urdu poet Iqbal. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Triple Canopy, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Fence, The Bennington Review, Poetry, The Boston Review, and other venues.