Annie Zaidi is a bilingual writer and her body of work spans multiple genres, including non-fiction, fiction, stage and film scripts, poetry and graphic storytelling. Her published work includes the forthcoming The Comeback, Bread, Cement, Cactus: A memoir of belonging and dislocation, Prelude to a Riot, which won the Tata Literature Live Award for fiction and was shortlisted for the JCB prize, City of Incident, Gulab, Love Stories # 1 to 14, and a collection of essays Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales. She is the editor of Unbound: 2000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing, and has co-authored inter-genre collection The Good Indian Girl.
She won the international Nine Dots Prize (2019) for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. She also received The Hindu Playwright Award for her drama script Untitled 1. Her radio script Jam was named regional (South Asia) winner for the BBC’s International Playwriting Competition. She has written and directed the documentary film tracing the literary history of Indian women: In her words: The journey of Indian women, and has also written multiple short films including the story for the multi-award winning short, Two Way Street.