Education
She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.
She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa.
She has published four books in Persian, including two collections of short stories. She began her play writing career in 1976, when her first play “” was produced for Iranian National Television. Since coming to the United States she has been writing both in English and Persian.
Her plays have been produced by a number of United States theater companies.
She currently contributes a weekly memoir and many other writings to Shahrvand, the Persian-language magazine based in Toronto, and since 2003 she teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.