Bio
Maisha Hossain is from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She completed her Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Fiction) in Summer 2024 with a minor in postcolonial literature and women’s writing. For her dissertation, she wrote a collection of short stories on Bangladeshi women, for which she was awarded the Adam M. Johnson Fellowship Award in Spring 2023. Her writing has appeared in Prose Online, Another Chicago Magazine, QUB’s Blackbird Anthology of 2018, Poet’s Choice, The Offending Adam, and NPR’s Fresh Picked Prose. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland and a B.A. in English from BRAC University, Bangladesh. As of Fall 2024, she joined Francis Marion University as an Assistant Professor of English.
First Name
Maisha
Last Name
Hossain
Full Name
Maisha Hossain
Grad Year
2024