Nausheen Eusuf

Sohana Manzoor (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh)

Ed. by Niaz Zaman, Independent University Bangladesh
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born c. 1980

Places

Born in Bangladesh
Active in Bangladesh

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Poet

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Eusuf's Works

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Nausheen Eusuf is a Bangladeshi poet who, in recent years, has claimed a prominent spot in contemporary poetry in English. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1980, Eusuf completed her PhD in English in 2019 from Boston University, specializing in poetry and poetics. She has a BA from Wellesley College, an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and an MA in English from the University of Georgia.

Eusuf’s poetry has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in two editions of Best American Poetry. Her poems have been published in numerous American and British journals, including The American Scholar; Southwest Review; Salmagundi; PN Review; Wasafiri; Agenda; Literary Imagination; and World Literature Today, as well as The Guardian’s “Poem of the Week”. She is the author of the chapbook

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Citation: Manzoor, Sohana. "Nausheen Eusuf". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 January 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14617, accessed 25 November 2024.]