About the Editors
Marzia Rahman is a Bangladeshi writer and translator. Her flashes have appeared in 101 Words, Postcard Shorts, Five of the Fifth, The Voices Project, The Pangolin Review, Fewerthan500.com, WordCity Literary Journal, Red Fern Review, Dribble Drabble Review, Paragraph Planet, Six Sentences, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Potato Soup Journal, Borderless Journal, The Antonym, Flash Fiction Festival Four and Writing Places Anthology UK.
Her novella-in-flash Life on the Edges was longlisted in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award Competition in 2018. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition in 2022.
Her translations have appeared in a number of anthologies. Her translation of Syed Shamsul Haq’s The Aftermath (Ditiyo Diner Kahini) has been published by ULAB Press in 2022. Rahman is currently working on a collaborative translation project on Shahaduz Zaman’s Ekjon Komlalebu and Saleha Chowdhury’s Ekjon Jushnara’s Galpa. She is working on a series of flashes too. She is also a painter.
Read some of her translated works.
A teacher of English, an avid gardener and traveller, Rituparna Mukherjee is the Chief Editor, The Antonym and a multilingual translator and writer navigating pathways between Bengali, Hindi and English. She has edited two anthologies of translated short stories and her translation of Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s The One-legged was published in January 2024. She especially enjoys writing and translating short fiction and flashes. Her work has appeared in many international journals and several anthologies. She is happiest away from crowds, in seclusion, singing an odd song, a cup of warm tea in hand, gazing at Kolkata rains.
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