Imtiaz Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow and was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker, and has published five collections with Bloodaxe in Britain, all including her own drawings: Postcards from god [including Purdah] (1997), I speak for the devil (2001), The terrorist at my table (2006) Leaving Fingerprints (2009) and Over the Moon (2014).