Taj Zaidi is a Bengali-American writer who grew up nomadically and now lives in Northern California. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Catapult, Foglifter, and the Emerge 2023 anthology by Lambda Literary, where he was selected as an Emerging Voices fellow. When not writing, you can find him performing onstage or kayaking the Pacific coast. IG: @tajzaidiwrites