Usman T. Malik (www.usmanmalik.org) is a Pakistani-American writer and doctor. His fiction has been reprinted in several year’s best anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Nebula Award, and has won the Bram Stoker and the British Fantasy awards. Usman’s debut collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan was published in early 2021 to great praise from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ken Liu, Karen Joy Fowler, Kelly Link, and others.