
Muneeza Shamsie
Muneeza Shamsie is the author of ‘Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English’ and editor of four anthologies of Pakistani English writing, including the recently published ‘In the New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English’. She received the Gold IPPY and Bronze Foreword Awards in the US for her third anthology ‘And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women’. Muneeza is the Area Editor for the Literary Encyclopedia, Pakistan’s bibliographic representative for Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly The Journal of Commonwealth Literature), and serves on advisory boards for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre of Pakistani Writing in English. She has chaired literary prize juries, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia) in 2010 and 2011. Based in Karachi, she regularly contributes to the Pakistani press.