Kyla Pasha is a Pakistani poet and academic working on ritual, gender, and livability in Islam. She is founder and managing editor of Chay Magazine and has served as contributing editor on GlobalComment. Her first book of poems, High Noon and the Body, was published in 2010 by Yoda Press New Delhi, and she has co-editedTwo Loves: Faiz’s Letters from Jail, a volume of the prison letters of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, which was published in 2011 by Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore. She is currently working on her second collection of poems.