I was born and raised in a sleepy town nestled in the outskirt of a metropolis in Bangladesh. A rail line track cut through the edge of the town. At the cusp of adolescence, I left the world I had known to immigrate to the U.S. with my family.
Writing, stories and imagination were my anchors as I moved through geographical and temporal spaces.
My passion for language and literature led me to get my M.A. in English.
Outside of academia, I wrote wildly for my own joy and cultivated a deep, rich, vibrant creative life: I felt as though I was drinking from the marrow of life.
I also discovered that this way of writing and living meant that I had to look within myself courageously and face dormant memories and interrogate beliefs that had been left unexamined. Eventually, writing and creative living became an important part of my healing journey from trauma.
I have had the good fortune of sharing what I have learned with others through writing and teaching.
In my journey as a writer and a teacher, I have seen the potency of creativity in general and writing specifically to heal, to transform, to liberate, and to vivify.
As a result, my work focuses on helping writers unleash their creativity in their writing and their life.
The focus remains the same whether I am teaching English writing and literature courses to college students, cracking open a sentence to identify the parts of speech when tutoring students at writing centers, hosting a writing party over Zoom, helping elementary students stitch together a paragraph, or facilitating a Bangla memoir-writing workshops to Bangladeshi seniors in a mosque.
Unleash your creativity in your writing and your life
While centering joy, ease and pleasure in the writing process!