Fiza Pathan is an author, educator, and literary scholar based in Mumbai, India. She has written more than twenty books across fiction, short fiction, and literary criticism, and her writing has been recognized with over seventy literary awards.<br>She teaches across the International Baccalaureate, Cambridge, and IGCSE curricula, and is currently reading for a Master of Theological Studies. Her scholarly interests are deliberately wide—comparative theology, Vedantic philosophy, Theosophical literature, contemporary literature, classical literature and Indian Knowledge Systems—and that breadth shapes her criticism, which declines to treat any single tradition as the center of world literature.<br>Since 2012 she has published short story analyses on her blog, where they have been read by students, teachers, and general readers around the world. Several have been adopted as curriculum resources by universities and colleges, particularly in South India. Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses gathers two hundred of them into a single volume. She writes short fiction herself, and reads it as a practitioner does—alert to what a writer chose to leave out.<br>She founded Fiza Pathan Publishing (OPC) Private Limited and its imprint, Freedom With Pluralism. She is also the inventor of UAIE (Universal Adaptive Interface Engine), a cross-platform accessibility suite built so that students otherwise shut out of digital reading and learning can take part in it.<br>She lives and works in Mumbai.