Masud was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore, Pakistan.
Her paternal ancestral roots are in Shopian, Kashmir, whilst her mother is Scottish and English.
[6] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.
[8] Her memoir A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) describes her childhood in Pakistan, moving to Scotland aged 15, and the complex post-traumatic stress disorder from which she suffers.
[9][10] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award,[11] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker, The Guardian and theSunday Times.