The Handsome Snail

Umma Habiba’s debut poetry collection Ghashe Ghashe Roktoful (Blood Flowers in the Grass) was published in Bangladesh in 2022. A member of the theater group Batighar, Habiba is also a development professional who has worked with Rohingya refugees, children with special needs, and the underprivileged indigenous people in the country’s hill tracts. She lives in the capital, Dhaka. (updated 4/2025)

Quamrul Hassan is the author of the haiku collections Spring Moon (2011) and Hyaku Haiku (2016). His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, The Malahat Review, Asahi Shimbun, AGNI, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, he is an MFA candidate in the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing and Translation. (updated 4/2025)