Farnoosh Moshiri was born in a literary family in Tehran, Iran. She holds a B.A. in dramatic literature from the College of Dramatic Arts in Tehran, an M.A. in drama from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A in creative writing from the University of Houston.
Her plays, short stories, and poems were published in Iranian literary magazines before the 1979 revolution and in anthologies published outside Iran in the 1980s. In 1983 she fled her country after a massive arrest of secular intellectuals, feminists, and political activists. She resided in Houston in 1987. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Houston campuses.
White Torture, published in Forge, an eclectic journal of modern story, culture, and art. Issue 5.3, Winter 2011-2012.
Read the Story: Hot Off the Press!
At the Shepherd's (excerpt from the unpublished novel The Drum-Tower) published in the Gulf Coast, issue 19.1, Winter-Spring 2007
Excerpt from Against Gravity published in the Exotic Gothic, an anthology edited by Danel Olson featuring both original and reprint takes that make use of traditional gothic elements. Scheduled for a 2007 release.
I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, edited by Melissa Kwasney and Mandy Smoker, published by Lost Heorse Press, November 2009.
What: The Bricklayer (An Opera with Music by Gregory Spears and Libretto by Farnoosh Moshiri)
Presented by Houston Grand Opera (HGO) as part of their Song of Houston’s East + West Celebration.
Where:
Wortham Theater Center
Cullen Theater
501 Texas Ave.
Houston, Texas
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 8:00 PM
Lectures on YouTube
The following video clips (in 5 parts) are from a reading in April 2008, which was part of a reading series sponsored by the American Book Review at the University of Houston, Victoria:
