Her first novel was Palabar Path Nei (No Escape Route), a story that explored the life of two single women in Dhaka,.
Shaheen’s second novel Talaash won the Prothom Alo Best Book of the Year Award for 2004.
For this novel She also won the 3rd Asian Literary Award-2020, a major prize in South Korea, Talaash (Eng: The Search, trans.
Her short stories have been published in Words without Border and other prestigious literary magazines.
She works as an editor in the Media and Communication Unit of Ain o Salish Kendra, a civil rights organization in Dhaka