AIAW Member Profiles -- (G)

Zohreh Ghahremani moved to the US in 1975. She describes herself as a writer/poet whose hobby used to be dentistry. After twenty-five years of teaching at Northwestern University and running her dental practice in Chicago, she relocated to California and became a full-time writer.

A charter member of San Diego Writers, Ink, she now serves on its board. Zohreh has served on the board of San Diego Writers & Editors' Guild and its Book Awards.

Ghahremani's first book – Shareek-e-Gham, (The Commiserator) – in Persian, was published in 2000. Her next novel, The Moon Daughter, will be released in mid 2011. A chapter of this novel was featured in A Year In Ink, the SDWI anthology, and her article, Who Knew, was selected for the audio release of the San Diego Dime Stories.

Her work has won several awards, including first place in California Stories of 2005 and her articles have appeared in multiple magazines in the US.

Zohreh lives in San Diego with her husband and close to their three children. When not writing, she enjoys painting and gardening.

Website: www.zoeghahremani.com

Playwright and fiction writer, Ezzat Goushegir has published four books in Farsi, including two collections of short stories The Woman, the Room, and Love and …And Suddenly the Leopard Cried: WOMAN, a collection of two plays Metamorphosis and Maryam’s Pregnancy, and Migration in the Sun, a book of poetry.

Her plays and short stories including Medea Was Born in Fallujah and Now Smile were anthologized in Witness and Crawdad as well as translated into Arabic. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1986, where she has been writing both in English and Farsi. Her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies in the U.S., Canada and Iran. She currently teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.


www.ezzatgoushegir.com