Born and raised in Kashmir’s Srinagar, Uzma Falak is a DAAD Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg. Her poetry, essays, and reportage have appeared in many publications, including The Baffler, Adi Magazine, Al Jazeera English, Warscapes, and The Caravan. She has contributed to Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings from Kashmir, and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? In 2017, she won an honorable mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Award, and in 2018 she participated in the Warwick Tate Exchange held at the Tate Modern, London, as a scholar-artist. She also directed the documentary Till Then The Roads Carry Her, exploring Kashmir women’s lifeworlds and repertories of resistance. Currently, she is part of the Regional Arts Australia’s artist-led online studio program and Capture All: A Sonic Investigation, a collaboration of Australia Council for the Arts, Liquid Architecture, and Sarai, focused on exploring sound/listening as resources of power, capture, and extraction.