Annie Zaidi is the author of the novels City of Incident and Prelude to a Riot (winner of the TATA Literature Live! Book of the Year Award: Fiction in 2020). She is the author of Gulab, Love Stories #1-14 and editor of Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing. She won The Hindu Playwright Award in 2018 for her play Untitled 1 and the Nine Dots prize in 2019 for her essay Bread, Cement, Cactus.