Tarek Masud is an author from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was born on November 09, 1963. He is the second child of late M A Mohsin and Latifa Akhter. He received undergraduate and post graduate degrees in English Lieterature from Dhaka International University at Banani. Before his journey began as a novelist and short story teller he taught as a teacher for twenty years at a number of English medium schools in Dhaka. Rahmat Ali, written in Bangla, is his first novel. He wrote a number of short stories in Bangla after this. "Forbidden Affair: A tale from Arakan" is his first novel in English. All his literary works are works of fiction. He is married to Mahfuza Rahman. Fatema Tuz Zahra and Ayesha Siddiqua are his two daughters.