Sofiul Azam has four poetry collections Impasse (2003), In Love with a Gorgon (2010), Safe under Water (2014), Persecution (2021) and edited Short Stories of Selim Morshed (2009). His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Pirene's Fountain, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ibis Head Review, The Ghazal Page, Cholla Needles, Poetry Salzburg Review, Orbis, The Cannon’s Mouth, Postcolonial Text, and elsewhere. Some poems are anthologized in Two Thirds North, fourW: New Writing 28, Journeys, Caught in the Net among others.
Currently he is working on This Time, Every Time and Days in the Forested Hills. Melancholy Souls is his novel in progress, and it has epic proportions that might go beyond 500 pages! He loves to call it his fantasy project instead of his dream project because he thinks he is one of the slowest writing animals on Earth, not even faster than three-toed sloths living in Central and South America.
Before moving to the United States to do an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University, he taught English at various universities in Bangladesh for the last fifteen years.
