Shabnam Nadiya is a Bangladeshi writer and translator settled in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the recipient of the 2019 Steinbeck Fellowship at the San Jose State University; a 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant; and a 2022 PEN Presents grant. Her translation of Alam’s story ‘Milk’ won the 2019 Himal Southasian Short Story Prize. Nadiya’s published translations include Mashiul Alam’s The Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella, Westland, 2024, Leesa Gazi’s novel Hellfire, Westland 2020, released in 2023 in the US by Amazon Crossing as Good Girls, Moinul Ahsan Saber’s novel The Mercenary, Seagull Books, 2018, and Shaheen Akhtar’s novel Beloved Rongomala, Westland Books, 2022. Her translations and writing have been widely published in journals and anthologies including the W.W. Norton collection Flash Fiction International, The Best Asian Poetry 2021-22, the New York Public Library’s Pocket Poems series, The Offing, Joyland Magazine, Amazon’s Day One, Gulf Coast, and Copper Nickel. Her own writing has appeared in Out of Print. For more: shabnamnadiya.com .
