Munira Tabassum Ahmed
AustraliaAbout
Munira Tabassum Ahmed is a writer and poet whose work explores memory, identity, and the complexities of human relationships. Her writing has appeared in a range of literary publications and anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems, Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, and Cordite Poetry Review. In 2022, Ahmed was awarded the Kat Muscat Fellowship, which supports emerging women and non-binary writers. Her debut novel, The Clinging Thing, was published by Penguin in 2026. Centring on a woman returning to her childhood home after pregnancy loss, the novel explores grief, faith, motherhood, and the legacies passed between generations of women. Ahmed’s work brings Bangladeshi-Australian experiences and Western Sydney into contemporary literary fiction.
