Begum Sufia Kamal is a famous female poet of Bangladesh. She is not only a poet but also a writer, organizer, feminist and social activist of Bangladesh. She was born on June 20, 1911 to a Muslim family in Barisal district and died on November 20, 1999 in Dhaka. Begum Sufia Kamal became the first Bengali Muslim female to be the member of Indian Women Federation in 1931.

Sufia Kamal could not get academic education because during her childhood, women's education was prohibited. But she learnt Bangla, Urdu, English, Hindi, Kurdish, Arabic and Persian language from her house tutors. She went to Kolkata with her mother where she came to meet Begum Rokeya in 1918. Her short story "Shainik Bodhu" was published in a local paper in 1923. Her first poem was “Bashanti” (Of spring) and it was published in the then influential magazine, Saogat in 1926. Begum Sufia Kamal published her first collection of short stories, Keyar Kanta (Thorns of the Keya tree) in 1937. Her first book of poems, Sanjher Maya (Evening Enchantment) was published in 1938. It is one of the best works in her life, and in 1984, it was translated in Russian.