Muna Gurung (*1984, Singapore) is a writer, translator and educator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a teaching fellow. Her fiction, non-fiction and translated works have appeared in various online and print publications. Her translation of Sulochana Manandhar’s poems, “Night”, was published by Tilted Axis Press in 2019. She has also edited and produced twenty children and young adult books. Muna writes a column called “Lightroom Conversation”, where she interviews women and queer writers in the Nepali literary scene. She teaches writing at the Open Institute for Social Sciences and is the founder of KathaSatha. KathaSatha fosters a writing and storytelling culture by creating and supporting writers and writing from Nepal.
When not writing or teaching, she runs an inter-generational pickle company called ĀMĀKO.

Muna is at work on her first novel. The book is a transnational and intergenerational story of three women who come from a family of witches and warriors. The story is also about bodies moving from one place to another having to call what feels like uncertain and unsafe spaces “home”. The novel deals with the inevitable relationship between violence and tenderness. The story takes place in Singapore, Parbat (in mid-western Nepal), Kathmandu and New York as it moves from past, present to future tense.