Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie is a Pakistani writer and critic and lives in Karachi. She has served as regional chair (Eurasia) for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009-2011, is Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and she guest edited the special Pakistan issue for The Journal of Postcolonial Writing. A frequent contributor to Dawn newspaper and Newsline magazine, she has edited two other pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English writing: A Dragonfly in the Sun and Leaving Home.