Idle Stance of the Tippler Pigeon

Safinah Danish Elahi is an author, a qualified lawyer, and the founder of an independent publishing house based in Pakistan. Her poetry collection has been critically acclaimed and one of her novels has been commissioned for television. Safinah was selected for the Iowa International Writing Program's 2022 Fall Residency and is often on the judging panel for writing competitions across Pakistan. In 2024, Safinah earned her MFA in contemporary fiction and publishing at Emerson College, Boston.

"The Idle Stance of a Tipper Pigeon is the work of an innate storyteller, a riveting and moving tale, which employs the perspective of several narrators, to advantage; it creates with great sensitivity, the unexpected reverberations of sudden tragedy on each individual. In the process it interweaves, past and present, the memories of joy and suffering, friendships and exclusions. The novel presents the complexities of trauma and mental aberrations with particular skill, including the pressures of daily life, class and gender." —Muneeza Shamsie, writer, critic, literary journalist, and author of Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English