Sabrina Islam

Sabrina Islam is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. A Bengali-American writer from Washington, DC, she holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Richmond and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Her research and creative interests focus on fiction writing, narrative techniques, and contemporary literary forms.

Her short stories have been published in Flock, Acta Victoriana, Prairie Schooner, and the minnesota review. She actively contributes to the literary community as a fiction manuscript reader for the New England Review.

Islam has received notable scholarships from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the Key West Literary Seminar. She teaches undergraduate courses in college writing and creative writing at the University of Maryland.