Rahad Abir is a writer from Bangladesh. His debut novel Bengal Hound won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for literary fiction. He has an MFA in fiction from Boston University. He is the recipient of the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia and the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction. His work has been translated into French and Hindi. Currently he is working on a short story collection, which was a finalist for the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship.