I'm a published creative writer (Poetry and Fiction) and a critical writer (Non-Fiction) whose work has been featured in countries including yours across the world. I'm Senior Lecturer in English at the Victoria University of Bangladesh. I'm Assistant Editor, “Outlooks: VUB Studies in Language, Literature and Culture.” I copy-edited many works and “Dhakai Jamdani: A Concise History Including 101 Design Motifs” published by UNESCO. For more information, you can read the formal short “literary” biography just below. Sofiul Azam’s BIO: Educated in English Literature at Rajshahi University, Sofiul Azam has authored three books of poetry titled “Impasse” (Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh, 2003), “In Love with a Gorgon” (Aarhus: Les Editions du Zaporogue, 2010 and forthcoming from County Clare: Salmon Poetry), “Safe under Water” (Dhaka: Magnum Opus, 2014) and edited “Short Stories of Selim Morshed” (Dhaka: Ulukhar, 2009). His poems have appeared in magazines like Prairie Schooner, Poetry Salzburg Review, Le Zaporogue, The Journal (once of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry), Orbis, Erbace, The Cannon’s Mouth, Forward Press, Conversation Poetry Quarterly, Boyne Berries, Deep South, Catamaran, Protocol, Postcolonial Text, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, NAP Magazine, etc. and some are anthologized in Journeys, Poets Against War, Poetry for Charity Volume 2. Now he lives with his wife and son in Dhaka and teaches English at Victoria University of Bangladesh, having taught it before at Southeast University and at Royal University of Dhaka.