Shakhawat Tipu born in 1971, lives in Dhaka. He is a distinguished poet, essayist and editor from Bangladesh. A prominent figure of the new Bengali poetic movement,

Tipu established himself as a leading poet of his generation. His poems have been translated in Greek, Spanish, Italian, Serbian, Slovenian and English. He has published two Haiku collections and seven titles of poems and a book on a famous Bengali sculptor Novera Ahmed and her works. Tipu edited Jatiya Shahittya (2008), a magazine of linguistics and philosophy and Charalnama (2011), a collection of street people & interviews with a subaltern dictionary.

His poems appeared in many magazines and anthologies around the world. He is a founder editor at Tarka Bangla [ A Popular Bangla Literary Journal: tarkabangla.com]