Gina B. Nahai
Gina B. Nahai is the author of Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Sundays Silence and Caspian Rain. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is a Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
Gina Barkhordar Nahai was born and grew up in Iran during the Shahs reign, and left with her family shortly before the countrys revolution. At age 13, she began attending boarding school in Switzerland and later moved to the United States in 1977, arriving in Los Angeles the night Elvis Presley died. At the time, she did not realize she was leaving Iran for good. In college, she studied political science, including Irans pre and postrevolutionary politics, at the University of California, Los Angeles for both her bachelors and masters of art degrees. Nahai speaks Persian, English, French, and Spanish.
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