Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed (born April 5, 1971) is a Bangladeshi American writer. She is known for being a writer on the ABC thriller Quantico, which made her one of the first Bangladeshi women to write for American network television. Ahmed has also published a book, fictional stories, and plays. Additionally, Ahmed is a professor at Manhatanville College's MFA program and Fairfield University.

Early life Sharbari Zohra Ahmed was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 5, 1971. Her family fled Bangladesh when she was three weeks old due to the Bangladesh Liberation War, during which her father was targeted for execution by the Pakistani Army. She went to New York University for her master's degree in creative writing. She lived in Ethiopia for a while, her story "Pepsi" is set in Ethiopia and is about a daughter of a Bangladeshi diplomat trying to fit in the country.

Career Ahmed was on the writing team for the first season of the ABC show Quantico, making her the first woman of Bangladeshi origin to write for a network show.

She wrote a play, Raisins Not Virgins, which was adapted into a short film. She presented in the AWP conference on postcolonial literature in Bangladesh in 2016. She is working on a new project called The Line with Ikhtisad Ahmed. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Gettysburg Review, Painted Bride Quarterly and the Asian Pacific American Journal.

In 2017, she adapted Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Bose Perkins (Scholastic) for the screen. The film is produced by Sleeperwave Films and directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury.

In 2023, Ahmed worked as a producer on the limited-series adaptation of Nadeem Zaman's The Inheritors, which is a modern retelling of The Great Gatsby set in Dhaka.