Sam Mukherjee’s novels are Chopped Green Chillies in Vanilla Ice Cream, In the Name of Love, and Perfect Tangerine, and he awaits the release of his fourth, The Citizen Soldier. He pens legal briefs for a criminal law firm in the UK and has written over 1500 feature articles, radio shows, and speeches for a Canadian…

Salma Bani is a Bangladeshi Canadian writer. She was born in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 16, 1962.  She earned a master degree in History and a Bachelor degree in Law from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. She is the recipient of the Bangla Academy Syed Waliullah Purushker in 2020, a Bangladesh National Prize for the writers. Her…

Sabyasachi Nag is the author of Hands Like Trees, a story collection, (Ronsdale Press, 2023) and three poetry collections including Uncharted (Mansfield Press, 2021). His fiction and poetry have appeared in over forty journals worldwide including Canadian Literature, Grain, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Windsor Review and The Guardian among other places. An…

Rummana Chowdhury nee Ahmad has been living in Toronto, Canada for almost 38 years now as a mother, cultural activist, working professional, writer and volunteer in Toronto’s South Asian Community. She immigrated to Canada after completing her Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Dhaka in 1981. Author of 47 books, Rummana has been…

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…