Surma Zahid started writing with poetry. Later on, she wrote short stories, essays and research on women who were oppressed in 1971. She was born at the village Rajabari of Raipura Upazilla under the district Narsingdi. The names of her parents are respectively late Alfaz Uddin Ahmed and late Ambia Akter. She is the youngest among five siblings. Her husband’s name is Md. Zahid Hossain. Her son’s name is Md. Nadir Hossain Lui and her daughter’s name is Nur-E-Zannat Jui. She started her education from Zirahi Government Primary School. Then she went to Morzal Kazi Md. Bashir High School, Goddimari High School and Alimuddin Degree College. Her research work on the War of Liberation includes Collected Essays on Female War Heroes 1-4, Of the Female War Heroes, Of the Female War Heroes 2: The History of the Oppressed women in 1971, Of the Female War Heroes 3: The Pathetic Stories of the Women Who Lost Honor in 1971, Of the Female War Heroes 4: I Am also an Aboriginal War Hero in This Struggle, Of the Female War Heroes 5: Achievement of Homeland Sacrificing Honor, Of the Female War Heroes 6: The Women Who Were Oppressed in the War of 1971, Of the Female War Heroes 7: The Unknown Stories of the Heroic Mothers, Violated in 1971, We Are War Children, The War of Liberation of Bangladesh Witnessed by the World through Mass media, The Prohibited and the Liberated, The War of Liberation Witnessed by Adolescents, The Oppressed Childhood, Bangabandhu and The War of Liberation Witnessed by the World through Mass media, Bangali Nationalism and Bangabandhu, Of Heroic Female Freedom Fighters, 50 Heroic Freedom Fighters, The Heroic Female Freedom Fighters in the War of Liberation, I Have Witnessed the War of Liberation.
Books of Poetry: Desires Apart, Right to Seize; Novels: The Sword, Today Is a Summer Day, I Am Lonely in a Golden Couch; Collection of Short Stories: No, I Will Not Go; Travelogues: I Made Tours to Singapore, Of South Africa. Awards and Honors: Bangamata Begum Fazilatun Nesa Mujib Award 2021, Bangla Academy Literary Award 2017, Anannya Top Ten 2016, Generation ’71 Award on the Occasion of Bangabandhu Centenary 2020, The Memento Conferred by the District Commissioner of Habiganj 2016, Sufi Motahar Hossain Literary Award 2014, Generation Award 2015, The Memento Conferred by the District Commissioner of Narsingdi 2019, Dr. M. H. Foundation Award 2019, Poet Sufia Kamal Literary Award 2006, South Bangla Literary and Cultural Medal 2004, Kumarkhali Literary Award 1999, Bindu Bishargo Literary and Cultural Association Medal 2019, Panjeri Chotokaku Ananda Alo Juvenile Literary Award 2020.
She is a fellow of Bangla Academy, a member of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, and she is also involved with many social and cultural organizations.