Basharat Peer is the author of Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, which was published to acclaim by Scribner in 2010. Born in Kashmir in 1977, Peer's work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Financial Times Magazine, n+1, and Columbia Journalism Review. He has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and served as a correspondent at Tehelka, India's leading English-language newsweekly. Peer studied journalism and politics at the Columbia School of Journalism. He lives in New Delhi.