The Shayṭān Bride
Discover The Shayṭān Bride, a compelling coming-of-age memoir that chronicles my journey from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Toronto. At nineteen, a pivotal experience ignited my exploration of gender, religion, culture, and race. You can order The Shayṭān from various platforms including your local independent bookstore (highly recommend this option), Indigo, Amazon (Canada and international), Indie Bound, and Bookshop. For more details, visit the Dundurn Press website. The memoir is also available as an audiobook, narrated by me, accessible through Audible.
Select Panels and Literary Presentations on
The Shayṭān Bride
08/2023 Panelist. “Bengalis in CanLit,” Canadian South Asian Literary Festival.
06/2023 Featured Reader. Balderdash Reading Series. The Ex-Puritan.
07/2023 Panelist. “Student Success Panel,” Humber School for Writers.
04/2022 Panelist. “Not So Happily Ever After,” gritLIT Literary Festival.
06/2022 Author Appearance. The Word on the Street Toronto Book and Magazine Festival.
08/2022 Panelist. “Dark and Dangerous Debuts from Authors on the Edge,” Fan Expo.
11/2021 Panelist. “Navigating Ourselves,” Wordstock Sudbury Literary Festival (8th Edition).
10/2021 Panelist. “Book Talk and Panel Event: Forced and Child Marriage Survivors Speaking Out in the U.S. and Canada,” Tahirih Justice Center.
10/2021 Panelist. “Dundurn Press Rare Machines Launch,” Dundurn Press.
07/2021 Featured Reader. Resistance Across Generations Launch. Living Hyphen Magazine.
01/2020 Featured Reader and Panelist. Poetry is Dead Magazine Final Issue Launch.
Featured Interviews
02/2022 For A Different Booklist Cultural Centre: The People’s Residence Event. Interviewed by Gayle Gonsalves.
10/2021 For Diaspora Dialogues. Interviewed by Aparita Bhandari.
10/2021 For the Veranda Book Club. Interviewed by Tasnim Jerin.
09/2021 For South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. Interviewed by Sidrah Ahmad-Chan.
05/2022 “Mental health of Muslim Youth in Canada.” For Canada’s National Observer. Written by Morgan Sharp.
05/2022 “It’s like somebody’s whispering in your ear’: Inside the expansive, intimate world of audiobooks.” For The Globe and Mail. Interviewed by Marsha Lederman.
Podcasts
06/2023 Humber School for Writers Love and Defiance’s Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
03/2023 The Vicars’ Crossing Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
05/2022 Podcast Show by Gray Miles Publishing Inc. – With Sumaiya Matin
03/2022 Trauma, Faith, and Courage (Roots and Resilience Podcast) – With Sumaiya Matin
12/2021 Wordstock Sudbury Podcast – With Sumaiya Matin
10/2021 Your Favorite Book Podcast - With Sumaiya Matin
08/2021 JAYU Hum Podcast - With Sumaiya Matin
06/2021 Kaleidoscope Radio – With Sumaiya Matin
Mentions
10/2023 Islamic Herstory Reading List: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
08/2022 Book Review: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. Cloud Lake Literary.
03/2022 Women Changing the World. Legible.
03/2022 12 International Women’s Day Reading Recommendations from Orangeville Public Library. The Toronto Star local news.
01/2022 The Biography Shelf – The Shaytan Bride. Midwest Book Review.
12/2021 Review: The Shaytan Bride. Minola Review.
12/2021 The Shaytan Bride: A Bangladeshi Canadian Memoir of Desire and Faith by Sumaiya Matin. The Miramichi Reader.
11/2021 Book Review: The Shaytan Bride by Sumaiya Matin. I’ve Read This Blog.
11/2021 Sudbury's bookworms, favourite authors to mingle this week. The Sudbury Star.
09/2021 Publishing in Canada 2021: Scott Fraser on Expanding Diversity. Publishers Weekly.
09/2021 5 New Books To Read This Fall. Chatelaine.
08/2021 57 works of Canadian nonfiction coming out in fall. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Books.
10/2016 Interfaith student dialogue tackles role of women. The Catholic Register.