About me
Afsheen Farhadi was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of the novel, FALSE PROPHET (2026, Melville House), and the forthcoming essay collection, THE CREEPS: MEDITATIONS ON HORROR (Fall 2027, University of Iowa Press). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Catapult, Bright Lights Film Journal, and elsewhere. He has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a Provost Graduate Fellow, and served as the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, Prose at Southern Methodist University. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.
