Tahia Abdel Nasser is a writer, scholar, and professor. She is the author of two books, Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges and Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles, published by Edinburgh University Press, and the editor of a memoir, Nasser My Husband. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. Her short stories have been published in New World Writing Quarterly and elsewhere. 

She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature who was chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, where she taught contemporary literature, Third World literature, and creative writing for nearly two decades.

She was born in Egypt and spent most of her childhood in Cairo. She has just finished a memoir of her grandfather, his legacy, and personal life, and she is also writing her debut novel set in Cuba and Egypt. She writes literary fiction and books about Latin America and the Arab world.

She lives in Egypt.