Zeeshan Khan Pathan

Zeeshan Khan Pathan is a poet and translator who writes under the name Zeeshan Pathan. He studied at Washington University in Saint Louis and completed an M.F.A. at Columbia University. He translates from Urdu, Turkish, and Persian and has lived in Istanbul since 2016. His debut poetry collection, The Minister of Disturbances, was published by Diode Editions in 2020 and won the 2019 Diode Editions Book Prize. The book deals with identity, citizenship, war, and exile from the perspective of an American Muslim. He also writes short fiction.