Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was awarded the PEN/Heim Translation Grant (2020), the Steinbeck Fellowship (2019) and the 2019 Himal Southasian Short Story Prize. Nadiya’s translations include Leesa Gazi’s novel Hellfire, Moinul Ahsan Saber’s novel The Mercenary and Shaheen Akhtar’s novel Beloved Rongomala. www.shabnamnadiya.com