Mahmud Rahman is a writer and translator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2004. His first book, Killing the Water: Stories, was published in 2010 by Penguin Books India. His second book, a translation of Bangladeshi writer Mahmudul Haqueâ's novel Black Ice, was published in 2012 by Harper Collins India. His fiction, nonfiction, and translations have been published in such magazines and anthologies as Oakland Noir, Chicago Quarterly Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Embark Literary Journal, Brooklyn Magazine, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Wasafiri, Scroll India, and The Dhaka Tribune.