Iffat Nawaz’s debut novel, ‘Shurjo’s Clan’ was shortlisted for Best First Book (Fiction) at The Mumbai LitFest in 2023 and is now part of three university syllabi. She worked for over a decade in humanitarian and development projects in USA, Asia and Africa. She has published a book commissioned by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, titled ‘Untold Stories of Tanguar Haor’ - a collection of true accounts of a nature-dependent community that lives in a water basin. Her writing has appeared in the Scroll, Cosmopolitan, Bloomsbury USA, Zubaan Books, Himal Southasian and The Indian Quarterly among others.