Mehreen Ahmed is an internationally acclaimed author. Her book The Pacifist was selected as Drunken Druid's Editors' Choice for June 2018, while her book Jacaranda Blues was selected for The Best of Novels for 2017: Family Novels of the Year by Novel Writing Festival. Her flash fiction "The Portrait" was chosen to be broadcast by Immortal Works' Flash Fiction Friday in 2018. "Bats Down Under," one of her short stories, was selected by the editors of CafeLit for The Best of CafeLit 8 in 2019. She has published with Literary Yard, Furtive Dalliance, Cambridge University Press, Routledge and many others. Her works have also been nominated for prestigious awards.