The Ocean of Mrs. Nagai Stories

A collection of short stories set in places as different as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Hell's Kitchen that tell about love, displacement and the agonies of childhood. *** Sharbari Zohra Ahmed received an MA in creative writing from New York University. Her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Caravan Magazine, Catamaran, and the Asian Pacific American Journal. Her short fiction was published in the anthologies The New Anthem: A Subcontinent in its Own Words, (Tranquebar, 2009) and Lifelines (Zubaan, 2012). In 2003, she won the First Words Literary Award for her short story Raisins Not Virgins, which she adapted into a stage play that was produced in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City (The Workshop Theater Co and The Lark Theater) and Dhaka. Her screenplay for Raisins Not Virgins was selected for the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival All Access Program. She is a regular columnist for the Daily Star Weekend Magazine - the widest read English language daily in Bangladesh, and teaches English Composition at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut.