Muneeza Shamsie

Muneeza Shamsie is a Pakistani writer and critic. She is author of Hybrid Tapestries The Development of a Pakistani English Literature (OUP forthcoming), Managing Editor of a work-in-progress The Oxford Companion to the Literatures of Pakistan and  Bibliographer (Pakistan) for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She is on the Advisory Board of Bengal Lights, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.  She has served on the DSC prize jury and she was the regional chair (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers Prize from 2009-2011. She lives in Karachi and writes freelance for Dawn and Newsline.