Labiba Alam lives in Assam, India. She writes both in Assamese and English, and translates from Assamese. Her academic work meets at the crossroads of myth, memory, and resistance. She holds a PhD. in English literature. Her poetry and short stories reflect the banal and the everyday. You can find her on Instagram: @la_rockpaperscissors.
Fiction by Labiba Alam: ‘Nandita’s arrival in our lives was similar to a new season dawning upon the hills. It was a slow, effortless glide, almost organic. It looks as if it had always been there, only we had begun to feel its newness by degrees.’