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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 journals. In addition to this corpus of work, Moshiri authored a libretto, "The Bricklayer", for a Houston Grand Opera Community Outreach program.

First Career in Iran
Moshiri's first creative works appeared 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. The focus of her creative work in Farsi was drama, and she was developing her career as a dramaturg as the 1979 antiroyal and pro-democracy revolution began. However, the quick seizure of power by the clerical caste the subsequent ideological/religious clerical onslaught against the initial aspirations of the revolution, anti-secular and anti-feminist/anti-woman repression prevented perfomance of Moshiri's drama in its last stages of rehersal, and her life was in danger.