Dua Abbas Rizvi is a visual artist with a background in literature and art journalism. She works with both found and original media, along with fragments of her own writing, to explore themes of perception and subjectivity, and the ambivalences of language. She has studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. She was recently awarded a writing fellowship to develop her first book of nonfiction: a graphic memoir about language, colonialism, and the complex nature of inspiration, told through a Pakistani girl’s relationship with a dead English poet.