Manjushree Thapa (born 1968 in Kathmandu) is a Nepalese–born Canadian essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor.

[2] She began to write upon completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.

In 2001 she published the novel The Tutor of History, which she had begun as her MFA thesis in the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar.

Her best known book is Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (2005), published just weeks before the royal coup in Nepal on 1 February 2005.

In 2009 she published a biography of a Nepali environmentalist, A Boy from Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung.