Aasha Mehreen Amin born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, completed her Bachelor of Science from Boston College (US) in 1991. She went to University of California at Berkeley on a journalism fellowship in 1993. She joined The Daily Star in 1991 June and has been working there for the last 20 years.
She has been the Editor of The Star weekly magazine, a publication of The Daily Star (Bangladesh) since 1996. Currently she is Magazine Editor and Feature Editor of The Daily Star. She writes a weekly satirical column called ‘Postscript’ for The Star. She lives in Dhaka with her husband and daughter.