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Author Farnoosh Moshiri Farnoosh Moshiri is a widely published novelist. Her works span continents and feature characters of depth and substance. Moshiri's novels explore the depths of power and gender relations in both middle eastern (Persian) and north American (U.S.) cultures. In addition to her novels, Moshiri writes short stories, with one collection now published. Her short fictions also appear in anthologies. Her non-fiction appears in special edition journals. In addition to this corpus of work, Moshiri authored a libretto, "The Bricklayer", for a Houston Grand Opera Community Outreach program.

Academic Career

Early Influences

Education

First Career in Iran

Moshiri's first language creative fields include ballet, literary criticism, fiction and drama, with performances in the Royal Ballet of Iran and writtern works published in Farsi, the language of her native Iran. Fiction and critical articles appeared in periodicals in Iran from the mid 1970's, and in her first exile, in Afghanistan, beginning in 1982. Moshiri launched her career as a dramatist as the 1979 anti-royal and pro-democracy revolution began. However, the quick seizure of power by the clerical caste diverted the initial pro-democracy aspirations of the revolution. The subsequent fundamentalist, anti-secular and anti-feminist/anti-woman repression prevented performance of Moshiri's drama (in its last stages of rehearsal at the time), and put her life in danger.