Roksana Pervin has been involved in writing since her childhood. When she was in fifth grade, her first short story was published in a children’s magazine called ‘Patabahar’. After that, her stories and poems were published in school and college magazines. Her first poetry book ‘Elomelo Bhavana’ was published in 2020. The poems in this…

Roksana Lais is an author, poet and visual artist who primarily writes in Bangla, but many times her writings have been translated into English. She regularly contributes to newspapers, magazines, and blogs from Bangladesh, India, England, Australia, and North America. Born amidst the greenery of Bangladesh, she has been residing in Canada for a considerable…

Ritusree Ghosh, born in 1984 in Khulna, Bangladesh, graduated from the University of Calcutta with scholarship. She started writing at her early days and continued that in Kolkata periodicals like Sahitya Patra, et al, as a local Journalist. After immigrating to Toronto, Canada in 2013, she started regular contribution to Toronto periodicals and magazines. Her…

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…