Partow Nooriala was born in Iran into a distinguished literary family in which poetry was both inheritance and destiny. Her two grandfathers, her mother, and her eldest brother were all poets and literary figures, and from adolescence she found herself immersed in…

Mansour Noorbakhsh is a poet, writer, and translator, creating works in both English and Persian (Farsi), his native language. His writings advocate for freedom, human rights, and environmental awareness. He believes that dialogue between people across the world is essential for fostering peace,…

Mahboubeh Mousavi, a former teacher, is a writer and literary researcher from Neyshabur. She studied history at university, and her first literary activity was the publication of a children’s story adapted from the “Zal and Simorgh” tale in the Shahnameh, titled A Bird,…

Merila Moradi, born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1981, is a graphic designer, sculptor and writer. She began her writing journey at the age of seventeen through short story workshops in Shiraz, led by Shahriar Mandanipour, and later had her short stories published…

Born in Tehran in 1953, Fereshteh Molavi lived and worked there until 1998 when she immigrated to Canada. She worked and taught at Yale University, University of Toronto, York University, and Seneca College. A fellow at Massey College and a writer-in-residence at…

Shahrzad Mojab is Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto. Professor Mojab has served as the Interim Principal…

Mehdi Marashi is an Iranian fiction writer, translator, and researcher based in Canada. He has published three short story collections—Nafas-Tang (“Short of Breath”), Ketābat-e Bahār (“The Writing of Spring”), and Az Jādeh ke Migozashtim (“As We Passed the Road”)—as well as the…

Arash Khoshsafa is an Iranian PhD holder in English literature from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His main scholarly focus is literary criticism and modern American fiction, especially the works of dirty realism authors such as Richard Ford. In…

Farnaz Khatibi Jafari is a novelist and educator based in Japan. Her work explores identity, memory, and the quiet erosion of the self within systems that demand silence and conformity. Influenced by years of teaching on consciousness and selfhood, she writes fiction…

Yalda M. Kaveh is an assistant professor in Bilingual Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Her research, teaching, and service focus on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

Bijan Jalali (1927–2000) was an Iranian poet known for his brief, minimalist, meditative style. Departing from traditional Persian verse, his poems focus on the nature of poetic production, the cosmos, and nature. Though overlooked during his lifetime, Jalali’s work has gained posthumous…

Domenico Ingenito, Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at UCLA, specializes in premodern Persian literature, visual culture, and gender studies. His interdisciplinary research integrates philology, literary theory, and manuscript studies, focusing on Persian lyricism. His notable works include Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz…

Professor Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017) was a prominent Kurdish-Iranian Marxist Linguist and Professor Emeritus of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto (UofT), where he taught from 1999 to 2009. His major research areas were Kurdish socio-linguistics, Kurdish history and…

Zohreh Hakimi was born in Iran in 1955. She began writing fiction in the mid-1990s and has since published two short story collections and two novels. Her works have won the Parvin Etesami Literary Award, and she was the runner-up (second-place recipient)…

Amir Hakimi is a poet and a researcher of the history of New Persian poetry and the history of modernity in Iran. Hakimi has played a prominent role in the recovery of less-seen currents in the history of modern Persian poetry. By…

Mohammad Hajinia is a master’s graduate in philosophy from University of Tehran and Aix-Marseille University. Relying on the conceptual framework provided by Althusser’s interpretation of Marxism, his research focuses on the foundations of ‘epistemology’, theoretical practice, and class analysis within Marxism.

Amin Haddadi (born September 1992) is a poet, translator, and literary critic based in Tehran. His published works include “Open Wounds and Tehran Spleen” (2021, Afraz Publishing); “Lathe Working the Metal of the Future: Four Fragments and an Anthology of Portraits by Majid…

Ardavan Guity earned a PhD in linguistics at Gallaudet University. He serves at Ohlone College in Northern California as the Director of Deaf Studies.

Mohammad Ghassemzadeh (b. 1955, Nahavand, Iran) is an acclaimed Iranian fiction writer, researcher, and compiler whose prolific body of work spans thousands of pages. Known for his literary versatility, historical insight, and commitment to cultural heritage, Ghassemzadeh has made a significant impact on…

Mahdi Ganjavi, PhD (University of Toronto), is a literary translator and distinguished historian of education, print, and literature in the Middle East. A former postdoctoral fellow at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, he currently teaches at the Faculty…

Ali Foumani is a poet, writer, and theater director. His poems and short stories were published in Iranian literary magazines during the 1990s and 2000s, and his first poetry collection was released in 2013 by Nogaam Publishing in London. Several of his…

Ali Fatolahi, a poet, writer, and translator, was born in Khorramabad in 1977. He began writing in high school and pursued his higher education with an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Isfahan, ultimately earning a doctorate in computer…

Amin Fatemi is a teacher, translator, and Irish literature scholar. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and is currently finishing his PhD on the early work of Samuel Beckett and phenomenology at the University of Reading. He is the general editor of…

Reza Farokhfal began his literary career by publishing short stories in Jung-e Esfahan (edited by the late Hooshang Golshiri and his friends) in the late 1960s. Since then, he has published numerous stories and essays in Iranian literary journals and periodicals. His recently published…