Born and educated mostly in Bihar, India, he is the author of a critically-acclaimed collection of poems. Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000) and the novel. The Bus Stopped (Picador, 2004), which was short-listed for the Encore Award in Uk. His other novel Filming: A Love Story (Picdor, London) also received rave reviews. He has won the All India Portry Prize and Written or edited/co-edited several studies and anthologies, including Babu Fictions; Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels and Other Routes; 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. Other titles by Tabish Khair includes - Where Parallel Lines Meet, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels, The Bus Stopped, Other Routes, Filming: A Love Story, "The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere", Man of Glass: Poems, The Thing About Thugs, etc.