Susanne Pari author biography, plus links to books by Susanne Pari.

Susanne Pari

Susanne Pari is an Iranian American novelist, journalist, essayist, and book reviewer. Born in New Jersey to an Iranian father and an American mother, she grew up both in the United States and Iran until the 1979 Islamic Revolution forced her family into permanent exile. She is the author of two novels – In the Time of Our History and The Fortune Catcher – and her non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, and Medium. A former Program Director for Book Expo, she is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Author's Guild, the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and the Castro Writers' Cooperative, she serves on the board of the Lakota Children's Enrichment Writing Project and is an alumna of the Hedgebrook Writing Residency. She writes occasionally for the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies blog and divides her time between Northern California and New York. Please visit her online at SusannePari.com.

This biography was last updated on 01/03/2023.

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