Shahamat Uddin is a Bangladeshi-American writer whose work explores LGBTQIA+ issues, South Asian identity, and intimacy. His journalism on these topics has appeared in Vogue, Vogue India, The Cut, The Nation, them, and more. He is currently writing his debut novel, White Boys Don't Have Lips, a novel that examines how colonial histories and internalized racism shape the ways we love and desire. Outside of writing, he is a bartender in Brooklyn, where he lives with his cat, Butter.