Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) is the author of Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English and editor of four anthologies of Pakistani English writing, including the 2025 publication In the New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani Literature in English. She received the Gold IPPY and Bronze Foreword Awards in the US for the American edition of her third anthology, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women. She is an Area Editor for the online Literary Encyclopedia, Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for Literature, Critique and Empire Today, and serves on the advisory boards of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre for Pakistani Writing in English. She has served on various literary juries and was the Regional Chair (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (2009–2010). Based in Karachi, she contributes regularly to the Pakistani press. [Photograph credit: Zain Mustafa]