Shahriar Alvandi

Shahriar Alvandi (born 1974 in Tuyserkan, Iran) is an Iranian writer, poet, and journalist, and a graduate of Dramatic Literature from the University of Art in Tehran. His writing draws on lived memory, childhood experience, and the emotional geography of place, offering a poetic and reflective engagement with both personal and collective history.

Part of his work belongs to peace literature, with a focus on the Iran–Iraq War, and has received several literary awards. He has also conducted research on Iranian traditional music and is the author of The History of Music in Iran for young readers. Alvandi is a board member of the Iranian Association of Writers for Children and Young Adults.