SHAHNAZ HABIB is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. She translates from her mother tongue, the south Indian language of Malayalam, and has translated two novels, Jasmine Days and Al-Arabian Novel Factory, the first of which won the 2018 JCB Prize. Shahnaz teaches writing in the MFA program at Bay Path University as well as at The New School. She also consults for the United Nations. Airplane Mode is her first book.
