Written by
Shabnam Nadiya

Bangladeshi writer and translator Shabnam Nadiya graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been published in Flash Fiction International (WW Norton), One World (New Internationalist), Al Jazeera Online, Pank, Amazon’s Day One, Chicago Quarterly Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Wasafiri, Words Without Borders, and Gulf Coast. She has also translated Moinul Ahsan Saber’s novel The Mercenary (Bengal Lights Books, 2016; Seagull Books, 2018); and Shaheen Akhtar's novel Beloved Rongomala ( (Bengal Lights Books, 2018; Seagull Books, forthcoming). www.shabnamnadiya.com.