Sikandar Ali teaches English at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. He took an Honours and a Master’s in English (literature) from Jahangirnagar University and an MA in TESL from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
Sikandar regularly contributes to different English language dailies. He has translated Bangabandhu’s speeches as part of a pool of translators. He has also translated a selection of Bengali poems into English. Currently, he is editing the Bengali translation of a volume of short stories by Anglo–Indian women writers, to be published shortly, under the title Ouponibeshik Lekhikara.