Masood is a writer in creative nonfiction and the author of two travel memoirs, Zaatar Days, Henna Nights (Seal Press/2007).
[2] Masood was born in Karachi in 1971 and studied international business at the University of Washington and worked as a research analyst in the information technology sector for six years before turning towards writing.
Masood was a resident artist with Seattle Arts and Lectures Writers in the Schools Program [3] during 2007 and a guest instructor in the Political Science Department at Edmonds Community College in the spring of 2009.
Selected for the Jack Straw Foundation writers forum in 2005,[4] Masood's writings on women, culture and Islam have been featured in Al-Ahram, Asia Times, and the anthologies Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality, Waking up American and Bare your Soul: A Thinking Girl's Guide to Spirituality.
Masood briefly worked in Pakistan at the International Crisis Group and the Human Rights Commission before moving back to the Pacific Northwest.