Muneeza Shamsie

A literary critic, editor, and author of the definitive work Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English. A regular contributor to the Pakistani press, Muneeza is editor (South Asia) for the online Literary Encyclopedia, and has edited three pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English literature, including the award-winning And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005). She is bibliographic representative for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. She was jury member for the 2013 DSC Prize and Regional Chairperson (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize from 2009–2011.