Shabnam Nadiya

Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator, settled in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of the Steinbeck Fellowship (2019) for her novel-in-progress Unwanted; a PEN/Heim Translation Grant (2020) for her translation of Mashiul Alam’s short fiction entitled The Meat Market and Other Stories; and the 2019 Himal South Asian Short Story Prize for her translation of Mashiul Alam’s short story Milk. Nadiya’s translations include Shaheen Akhtar’s novel Beloved Rongomala (Eka/Westland, January 2022), Leesa Gazi’s debut novel Hellfire (Eka/Westland, September, 2020), and Moinul Ahsan Saber’s novel The Mercenary (Seagull Books, 2018).

Her original work as well as her translations have been published in: the W.W. Norton collection Flash Fiction International, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, the New York Public Library’s Pocket Poems series, SAAG Anthology, Harpur Palate, The Offing, Joyland, Amazon’s Day One, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, Wasafiri, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Al Jazeera Online, Flash Fiction International (WW Norton). Nadiya also served as juror for the PEN/Heim Translation Grant (2017), the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant (2018), and the Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship (2022). For more: www.shabnamnadiya.com