An alumna of the Aligarh Muslim University, where she studied English Literature, Huma Khalil is an author, translator, and the editor of Bazm-e-Adab—an Urdu magazine wherein women writers contribute from around the globe. She regularly translates short stories and articles from Urdu into English for several publications. Her latest work, Many Summers Apart: Gems from Contemporary Urdu Literature, is the transcreation from Urdu to English of her father, Khalil-ur-Rahman Azmi’s, seminal volume on the progressives, Urdu Mein Taraqqi Pasand Adabi Tehreek. A member of the advisory board of Rekhta, the largest online website for Urdu language and literature, Huma is currently writing and creating content for audiovisual media on the life of Urdu poets.