A prominent journalist and literary personality, Peerzada Salman is a feature writer and a staff member with Dawn. He writes on a variety of subjects related to art, culture, and literature. He dabbles in short fiction and is a bilingual (Urdu and English) poet. In December 2017, his first collection of poems in English, Bemused, was published, followed in 2018 by his first collection of Urdu poems, Waqt. In 2021, Salman also published his debut collection of short stories, Ephemera.