Armish Tariq is, and will always remain, a student of literature. Following an intentional surrender to the "literary shelf of color and scent," she felt a profound desire to serve it not merely as a craft, but as a personal mission to be fulfilled before death could touch her, or she could touch death.

With her debut poetry collection, And in the Darkness of Light, Armish extends an invitation to those who suffer not from a vision of darkness, but from the blindness of light. She challenges her readers who listen, and listeners who read, to cease their pursuit of the forced headlights of a "perfect day" and instead refocus their gaze upon honest shadows.