Tariq Chattari was born on 1 October 1954 in Chattari, District Bulandshahr, in UP. He received an MA (Urdu) and a PhD from the Muslim University, Aligarh, and was appointed as a Program Ex-Quitor at All India Radio (Gorakhpur); he was then transferred to the Urdu Service in New Delhi in 1989. Later, he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Muslim University, Aligarh, in February 1993 and still holds the post of Reader. Tariq Chattari's first work is 'Jadid Afsanah', which was published in 1992. After that, in 2001, his fiction collection 'Bagh Ka Darwaza' was published, containing 19 stories.