Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Accomplishments
Published and Produced Work
Affiliations
Languages
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Sharbari Ahmed

400 West Ave Darien,CT

Summary

Award winning author of TV, stage and fiction; screenwriter, columnist; ten plus years experience as a lecturer of composition, literature and creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels, member: Writer's Guild of America East; TEDX speaker. 

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Author

Westland/Tranquebar
New Delhi, India
08.2019 - Current

Author of critically acclaimed novel, Dust Under Her Feet, Amazon India/Westland/Tranquebar Press, 2019

Adjunct Faculty, MFA Program

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
06.2019 - Current

Serves as mentor for MFA candidates in fiction, screenwriting and playwriting. Conducts intensive workshops in same over two residencies in the course of a year.

Artist in Residence, Graduate Film and TV Program

Sacred Heart University
Stamford, CT
08.2018 - Current

Teaches classes on TV script development. The class is conducted as a mock writer's room where students pitch and develop ideas for episodic television. Each student, with the support of the teacher and fellow students, "breaks", outlines and then writes the pilot episode of a TV show of their creation over the course of the semester.

Adjunct Lecturer in the MFA Program

Manhattanville College
Purchase, NY
09.2016 - Current

Conducts graduate workshops in creative writing, giving feedback and guidance through the creative process. Assigns writing prompts designed to inspire flow and creativity, while fostering a nurturing environment for MFA candidates to share and evolve as writers.

Screenwriter

Sleeperwave Films
Los Angeles, CA
06.2019 - 01.2021

Screenwriter for adaptation of the novel Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins. Scholastic, 2012, due for theatrical release in 2020-21.

Staff Writer

ABC Network
New York City, New York
06.2015 - 04.2016
  • Co-wrote and wrote two episodes of the ABC show "Quantico".
  • Was part of the writing team for the premiere season.
  • Sat in the writer's room, pitching ideas and breaking a season's worth of episodes with team.
  • Outlined episodes and provided support to fellow writers as well as promoted the show to various press and media outlets both nationally and internationally.

Adjunct Lecturer

Norwalk Community College
Norwalk, CT
09.2010 - 05.2015
  • Maintained a teaching load of a minimum of two undergraduate courses each semester in composition and literature.
  • Worked towards strengthening students written and analytical skills.
  • Lectured and communicated effectively with students from diverse backgrounds.
  • Challenged and motivated students through in-depth lectures and discussions.

Columnist

Daily Star
Dhaka, Bangladesh
05.2007 - 05.2015
  • Wrote a bi-weekly column, "Writing the Wrong" in The Daily Star, the largest English language newspaper in Bangladesh, ruminating on politics, life, love, films and literature with a readership of over 200,000 (online and print).

Education

Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing, Fiction

New York University
New York City

Bachelor of Arts - English Lit/Journalism

Marymount College

Accomplishments

  • Engaging public speaker
  • Effective use of multi-media teaching tools
  • Exceptional written and verbal communicator
  • Committed to cultivating student leadership
  • Innovative thinker
  • Natural leader
  • Inspiring lecturer.
  • TV and Film background
  • Strong creative vision
  • Collaborative
  • Screenwriting
  • Novelist
  • Playwriting
  • Essay writing

Published and Produced Work

  • Forthcoming: The Strangest Of Fruit: Collected Stories. Cheek Press, August 2025
  • Film: Rickshaw Girl, released 2021 by Sleeperwave Films.
  • TV credits: "Quantico" ABC Networks. Episode 8, "Over" (co-credit), air date: 11/15. Episode 13, "Clear", air date: 3/13/16, (solo credit as Sharbari Z. Ahmed)
  • Theater: Raisins Not Virgins-The Workshop Theater Co, 2003-2004.
  • TEDX talk: "Between the Kaabah Sharif and a Hard Place"
  • Publications, Fiction: Books:
  • Essay: "For Shuhada", Nothing Compares To You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us, One Signal (Simon and Schuster), 2025.
  • The Eyesore, CT Anthology of Writers, Woodhall Press, Oct, 2024.
  • The Strangest of Fruit: Stories, Cheek Press, 2025.
  • Ahmed, S. The Ocean of Mrs Nagai, Daily r, 2013.
  • Anthologies: Lifelines, Zubaan Books, Tranquebar Anthem, Tranquebar Press, 2010.
  • Short Fiction: New England Review, Wasafiri, The Gettysburg Review, The Asian Pacific American Journal, The Caravan, Catamaran, Inroads (Canada), Bengal Lights, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Roanoke Review.
  • Essays/Articles (not all are listed):
  • "American, Bangladeshi, Writer: Critical Muslim, July, 2017.
  • "On Muses and Harsh Critics": The Dhaka Tribune
  • "Finding a Home in The world": Scroll.In in March, 2016.
  • "How I Went From Being a Novelist to A Writer on "Quantico"": Scroll.In in January, 2016.

Affiliations

One of four "Write By The Beach" fellows, 2024 as part of the Lighthouse International Film Festival.

Storyknife Fellow, Tribeca All Access Fellow. Screenplay, Raisins Not Virgins was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Program. 2003, won the First Word Literary Award for South Asian American fiction in Washington DC.

Languages

Fluent in Bengali and English

Timeline

Author

Westland/Tranquebar
08.2019 - Current

Adjunct Faculty, MFA Program

Fairfield University
06.2019 - Current

Screenwriter

Sleeperwave Films
06.2019 - 01.2021

Artist in Residence, Graduate Film and TV Program

Sacred Heart University
08.2018 - Current

Adjunct Lecturer in the MFA Program

Manhattanville College
09.2016 - Current

Staff Writer

ABC Network
06.2015 - 04.2016

Adjunct Lecturer

Norwalk Community College
09.2010 - 05.2015

Columnist

Daily Star
05.2007 - 05.2015

Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing, Fiction

New York University

Bachelor of Arts - English Lit/Journalism

Marymount College

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