Anjum Altaf is a member of the International Coalition for Education Reform in Pakistan (ICERP), who obtained MA and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is the author of Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmad Faiz (2019), More Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmad Faiz (2021), and co-author (with Amit Basole) of Thinking with Ghalib: Poetry for a New Generation (2021).