Mashiul Alam is a Bangladeshi fiction writer, translator, and journalist. Born in 1968, he lives in Dhaka. His notable books include Tanushreer Songey Dwitio Raat and Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella. He translated Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground into Bengali. His stories in English have appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Himal Southasian, and South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG). He has won several literary awards and joined the International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency in 2022.