Contributors

Mahmud Rahman
is a writer and translator. His first book, a short story collection titled "Killing the Water," is forthcoming from Penguin India.

Shawkat Osman
(1917-1998) was a prolific writer best remembered for his allegorical novel Kritodasher Hashi (A slave's laughter, 1962), a political satire. His fiction, Nekre Oronya (In the jungle with wolves, 1973), chronicles Bangladesh's liberation war. He won the Bangla Academy Award in 1962 for his contribution to Bangla fiction.

Rizia Rahman
is a notable Bengali writer. She has been a newspaper columnist, essayist, critic and teacher. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Bangla Academy Award, for her fiction.

Munjulika Rahman
is a PhD student in performance studies at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. She is a short story writer and translator.

Marzia Rahman
got her Master's from the English department, Dhaka University. She is a schoolteacher and translator.

Hasan Ferdous
who lives in New York, is a columnist for Dhaka's daily Prothom Alo. His Bangla publications include four volumes of essays on literature and aesthetics and two books on the Middle East. His Nirbachito Probondho came out in 2008.

Israt Jahan Baki
is a student of Master's in the English department, Dhaka University, and a translator of Bengali fiction.

Wasi Ahmed
is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. He has published five collections of short stories and three novels. 'Skyward' is from his collection of short stories Tepantorer Shanko.

Audity Falguni
is a Bengali novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator. She is currently with the UNDP-CHTDF Project and has also published two research works, Banglar Nari Sangrami: Oittijher Onusandhani and Paribarik Ai e Bangladesh er Nari.

Shabnam Nadiya
is a short story writer, poet and translator. Her work has been included in A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Conflict in Collision (Other Voices Publishers/University of Illinois Press) and the Arsenic Lobster Poetry Annual 2007.

Khademul Islam
is the literary editor of The Daily Star. He is a short story writer, critic and translator. He edited The Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing.

Anis Chowdhury
is a Bengali writer of the 1950s and '60s. His Uponnash Shomogro was published by Mowla Brothers in 2006. A collection of his short stories in English translation is due to be published shortly.

Dr. Abdullah Shibli
is an economist, and IT professional working in Boston.. He has written two books and several papers in scientific journals.

Kaiser Haq
is a poet and professor of English at Dhaka University. His Collected Poems (1966-2006: Published in the Streets of Dhaka came out last year.

Farah Ghuznavi
is a columnist and short story writer. Her short stories have been published in the anthology From the Delta (UPL, 2005); they have also featured in magazine specials issued by various English newspapers.

Sabreena Ahmed
is a M.A. student of the English Department at Dhaka University. She is a translator and short story writer who has published in American e-zines and the literature page of The Daily Star.

Syed Manzoorul Islam
is a professor of English at Dhaka University. He is an award winning fiction writer with five volumes of short stories and two novels published from Dhaka and Kolkata.

Razia Sultana Khan's
short story 'Alms' was published in Best New American Voices, 2008. Her stories have also appeared in The Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing, From the Delta, Six Seasons Review and elsewhere. She is working on her novel The Mango Leaves Quiver.

Julie Reza
was born in Rajshahi and moved to England when she was just ten months old. After working as an immunologist and a neuroscientist for a number of years she became a medical writer, and writes short stories in her spare time.