Taran N. Khan is an award-winning writer whose first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Jan Michalski Foundation and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and the Royal Literary Fund. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, LitHub, Guernica, Al Jazeera, the Caravan and Himal Southasian among others.