List of Iranian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Iran or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

 * Masoumeh Abad (born 1962), activist, politician, and non-fiction author
 * Janet Afary (born 1960), feminist, historian, non-fiction writer
 * Mahnaz Afkhami (born 1941), feminist, non-fiction writer, now in the United States
 * Pegah Ahmadi (born 1974), poet, critic, translator
 * Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
 * Jaleh Amouzgar (born 1939), linguist, anthropologist, academic
 * Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), pilot, poet, short story writer, artist, now living in Sweden, writes in Persian, Swedish and English
 * Lady Amin (1886–1983), mystic, author of works on Islamic sciences
 * Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
 * Noushafarin Ansari (born 1939), librarian, educator, journalist
 * Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848), Kurdish poet, philosopher, historian
 * Mina Assadi (born 1943), poet, journalist, living in Sweden
 * Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (c.1858–1921), feminist, literary historian
 * Ghazaleh Alizadeh (born 1947), writer, poet

B

 * Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (born 1954), film director, screenwriter
 * Najmieh Batmanglij (born 1957), Iranian-American cookbook writer
 * Simin Behbahani (1927–2014), acclaimed poet
 * Niloofar Beyzaie (born 1967), playwright, theatre director, living in German
 * Taraneh Boroumand playwright, writer, poet, translator
 * Mona Borzouei, (born 1984), poet and songwriter

D

 * Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012), acclaimed early female novelist, short story writer, translator, educator
 * Soraya Darabi (born 1955), journalist, trade union activist
 * Sahar Delijani (born 1983), widely translated novelist, author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree, living between the United States and Italy
 * Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1961), feminist, journalist
 * Firoozeh Dumas (born 1965), Iranian-American memoirist, humorous writer, author of Funny in Farsi

E

 * Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Nobel peace prize winner, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
 * Amanda Enayati (born 1967), columnist, communication strategist
 * Camelia Entekhabifard (born 1973), poet, journalist, and memoirist, living in the United States
 * Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), acclaimed classical poet, essayist
 * Mansoureh Ettehadieh (graduated 1956), historian, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist
 * Tahereh Eybod (born 1963), author, researcher, instructor, critic, and journalist.

F

 * Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), influential poet, film director, poetry translated into several languages including English
 * Pooran Farrokhzad, since the 1990s: poet, playwright, encyclopedist
 * Nazila Fathi (born 1970), author and Iranian correspondent for The New York Times

G

 * Zarah Ghahramani (born 1981), Iranian-born Australian memoirist, author of My Life as a Traitor
 * Shusha Guppy (1935–2008), singer, memoirist, writer, critic, journal editor; she lived in London

H

 * Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi (born 1945), best selling novelist
 * Roya Hakakian (born 1966), Iranian-American poet, journalist, memoirist, essayist, television producer
 * Maryam Heydarzadeh (born 1977), poet, lyricist
 * Maryam Hooleh (born 1978), poet, novelist, filmmaker

J

 * Rosa Jamali (born 1977), poet, playwright, translator
 * Hamideh Jahangiri (born 1981), Author, translator, Academic,

K

 * Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), widely translated poet, human rights activist, living in the United States
 * Mehrangiz Kar (born 1944), women's rights activist, essayist, author of Crossing the Red Line
 * Persis Karim (born 1962), literature scholar, author, and professor; director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University; lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 * Leila Kasra (1939–1989), poet, lyricist
 * Fatemeh Keshavarz (born 1952), poet, educator, literary historian, living in the United States
 * Porochista Khakpour (born 1978), Iranian-American novelist, essayist

L

 * Shahla Lahiji (born 1942), feminist, translator, publisher

M

 * Mahsati (c.1089–c.1159), early Persian poet writing in quatrains
 * Marsha Mehran (1977–2014), widely translated novelist, author of Pomegranate Soup; she lived in Argentina, the United States, Australia and Ireland.
 * Mozhgan Babamarandi is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction, since 1996
 * Farzaneh Milani, Iranian-American educator, since early 1990s: non-fiction writer, poet
 * Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist, memoirist, author of Lipstick Jihad, now living in London
 * Roza Montazemi (c.1921–2009), popular cookbook writer
 * Minoo Moshiri, essayist, translator and journalist
 * Granaz Moussavi (born 1976), Iranian-Australian poet, screenwriter, film director

N

 * Azar Nafisi (born 1955), feminist, memoirist, literary critic, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
 * Afsaneh Najmabadi (born 1946), Iranian-American historian, educator, literary historian, author of The Story of the Daughters of Quchan
 * Marina Nemat (born 1965), memoirist

O

 * Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (2005)

P

 * Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
 * Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), Iranian-Armenian novelist, works translated into several languages

S

 * Leila Sadeghi (born 1977), writer
 * Sepideh Shamlou (born 1968), writer
 * Shadi Sadr (born 1974), lawyer, journalist, women's rights activist
 * Nazi Safavi (born 1967), novelist, author of Hallway to Paradise
 * Tahereh Saffarzadeh (born 1936), poet, non-fiction writer, translator, educator
 * Parinoush Saniee, since 2003, novelist, author of the widely translated The Book of Fate
 * Homa Sarshar, Iranian-American author, activist, feminist and journalist
 * Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), Iranian-born French novelist, illustrator, children's writer
 * Louisa Shafia, Iranian-American chef and cookbook writer
 * Mahasti Shahrokhi (born 1956), novelist, poet
 * Siba Shakib, novelist, filmmaker, author of the widely translated Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep (2002)
 * Shahla Sherkat (born 1956), journalist, feminist writer, journal publisher
 * Zandokht Shirazi (1900–1953), feminist, poet, educator

T

 * Táhirih, pseudonym of Fatimah Baraghani (c.1814–1852), poet, theologian
 * Goli Taraghi (born 1939), novelist, short story writer
 * Niloufar Talebi, memoirist, nonfiction writer, literary translator, multidisciplinary artist

V

 * Fariba Vafi (born 1963), novelist
 * Lobat Vala (born 1930), poet, feminist, now living in London

Y

 * Chista Yasrebi (born 1968), writer, literary critic, translator, publisher
 * Elham Yaghoubian, since the 1990s: novelist, living in the United States