Reza Sattar, born in Bangladesh, 1966, is an engineer and political poet. Reza finished his MSc in Electrical Engineering from St. Petersburg State Technical University in 1990. Spending 17 years in the USSR, he moved to the US in 1998 and later to Canada in 2000. After he settled in Toronto, he went to George…

Refat Al Hamid was born in 1973 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Refat got inspiration of writing from his mother who was a regular contributor to different literary journals since the late fifties of the last century.After going through a lot of ups and downs in life, he started his career in the banking profession after graduating…

Quazi Helal, born in Naogaon of Bangladesh, earned double master’s degree in Management and Marketing from Rajshahi University. Now a resident of Toronto, Canada, Quazi is a poet, performer, reciter and actor. Quazi began his journey as a writer at his teens. His debut volume of poetry titled ‘Pan Kaurir Dubshatar’ received a lot of…

An eyewitness survivor of mass killings orchestrated by the Pakistan Army in 1971, Parvez Elahi Chowdhury (b. 1955) authored ‘Ekatturer Protiddhoni’ (Memoirs based on the personal experiences of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971), a firsthand account of events that culminated in the deaths of his police officer father and two elder brothers in Lalmonirhat,…

Nahar Monica, born in Bangladesh, is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She works for the provintial government health sector in Quebec. The issues of Bangladeshi Diaspora are predominant among the various themes in Nahar Monica’s writings. The topics may be known , the characters may be familiar, but her mastery of style and…

Muhammad Bazlush Shahid, a poet and fictionist, has also skills in translating. In the formative years of his literary odyssey, Shahid’s talent was acknowledged with an award in a school-level patriotic poetry competition, hosted by the Bangla Academy. Later, he assumed the helm of the literary section in the weekly publication, ‘Prakash’. His first novel ‘Trisiter…

Mostafa Akand, a Bangladeshi Canadian writer and social work professional, mostly writes in Bengali focusing on social and human psychology in Toronto-based Bengali weeklies and on Facebook. The two Bengali books to his credit are “Kemon Desh Canada o Onnanno Proshongo”(How is Canada as Country and other  Issues, essays) and “Dur Akasher Tan” (The Attraction…

Monis Rafiq, born in Bangladesh, studied in English Language and Literature and taught at colleges for 12 years. After quitting his teaching job in 2006, he completely involved himself in magazine editing, social research, film making and research on films. A former Fellow of Bangladesh Film Achieve, Monis directed three documentaries and two short fiction…

ML Gani alias Mohammad Lokman Gani, started writing for the first time while in the seventh grade. A short story called ‘Rickshawala’ was published in 1977. Besides short stories, he also writes columns on contemporary issues in newspapers. He is the author of the ‘Canada Ovibashoner Tookitaki’ series published continuously in the first Bengali language online…

Poet Mehrub Rahman’s volumes of poetry include ‘Ghorke Korbo Shorgo’, ‘Shesh Shraboner Shesh Bikèle’, ‘Ami Kritodas’, ‘Nashtobij’, ‘Surjodoyer Pathshala’, ‘Shobdo Niye Khela, ‘Nil Bish Nil Ojogor’, ‘Amar Kobita Amar Bhuvon’, ‘Shonirbachito Kobita’ (Selected Poems), ‘Kobita Somogro 1’ (Poetry Collection 1), ‘Butterfly Thunder’ ( Canadian Anthology of Poetry),  ‘Bhalobashar Antarale’, ‘Subasito Chandon’, ‘Potakar Lal Suryo Shokhe…