Our Authors

Neal Hall M.D. was trained as a medical-surgical eye physician. He is a graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities. An award winning, internationally acclaimed poet, he has composed poetry and performed readings throughout the U.S. and internationally. Hall has...

Niloufar Talebi is a writer, award-winning translator, and creator. Her work has been featured at the Kennedy Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and she has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Her...

J. L. Skirvin “Is this Heaven’s cloud I sleep on is why my eyes see only white hazy shadows Are you saints floating here? Stop your flight, fair silent beings! Come closer so that I might know your strange faces!” The customized Cessna jet aircraft Sheila Stoffel is...

ABNOOS MOSLEH-SHIRAZI was born on March 4th, 1996 in Shiraz, Iran but was raised in Canada. She obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with First Class Honors from York University in 2017. She is now attending medical school. Abnoos learned how to cook, bake, sow...

LALEH CHINI is a mother of two children, Amir and Abnoos, and wife to her husband Mohammad. Laleh was born in Iran, Shiraz in 1968. After the loss of her father, Laleh began a new life when she moved to Washington D.C at the age of 16. She got married in 1987 and...

DARRYL WIMBERLEY has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won the ForeWord Award for “Best Literary Novel” in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner the Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2007. Darryl writes,...

One of Iran’s acclaimed contemporary writers, FARIDEH RAZI is also a translator, playwright, poet and scholar. Born in Tehran, she studied English and Persian Literature, and Art and Philosophy at New York University, The New School, and Tehran University. She worked...

SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR was born in Tehran in February 17, 1946. She started her literary career when she was sixteen, writing short stories and articles. She graduated from the University of Tehran in Sociology. When she was twenty-eight, she wrote her first novel, Sag va...

SADEGH HEDAYAT was born on 17 February 1903 in Tehran, at his father's house. His father was Hedayat Gholi Khan-e Hedayat (E'tezad-Ol-Molk), son of Jafar GholiKhan-e Hedayat,his mother was , Ozra-Zivar-Ol-Moluk Hedayat,daughter of Hossein GholiKhan-e Mokhber-ol-Dole...

SAM VASEGHI was born 1967 in Teheran, living his early childhood in Teheran and Stuttgart (Germany). 1973 he returned with his parents to Rasht (Iran), where he lived until 1983. In this time he experienced the late dictatorship period of the Shah, the revolution 1979...

ROBAB MOHEB was born 1953 in south east of Iran (Ahvaz) next to the Iran/Iraq boarder. After finalizing secondary school, she studied sociology at the University of Teheran. In 1992, Robab Moheb, left Iran for Swedish Exile, where she lives until today. She was...

MAHSA MOHEBALI, born on 12 August 1972 in Tehran, is an Iranian writer and literature critic. She began writing in Reza Barahei’s workshop in the 80’s. She counts as a third generation of fictional literature writers in Iran. Mahsa Mohebali (fiction writer; Iran) is...

A bilingual author, ALBERT RUSSO writes in both English and French, his two “mother tongues” ; he also speaks five languages fluently and has lived in Africa, the United States and Europe. He is the recipient of many awards, such as The American Society of Writers...

NAVEED NOORI is the pseudonym for an Iranian writer whose first novel, Dakhmeh, was selected by Barnes and Nobles as part of their "Great New Writers Series" in 2003. In 2012 his translation of Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl was published under the auspices of the...

Born DANIEL RUSSEL BROWN, CURZON received his Ph.B. from the University of Detroit in 1960, his M.A. from Kent State University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1969. He has taught at a number of universities since 1962; from 1980 until his...

Palestine, 1948: HALIMA ALAIYAN, barely a year old, flees her home village of Ibdis, Palestine with her parents and siblings. She grows up as an exile in Egypt, feeling the constraints of Islamic tradition on girls and women. At sixteen, following an arranged...

MAURO MEVLUD MARTINO was born in Calabria, southern Italy on March 29th, 1953. He is known as a Canadian Italian Turkish writer as his work has also been translated into Turkish from his original English work. A year after birth, in 1954, with his parents, he arrived...

DARRYL WIMBERLEY has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won the ForeWord Award for “Best Literary Novel” in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner the Willie Morris Award for Fiction in...