She was born two years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution,[2] studied Literature and Cinema in Tehran, and her PhD in Persian Literature is in Strasbourg.[3] She participated in a number of international poetry festivals, including the Poetry Biennial Val-de-Marne in 2005[2] and the Voix vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée festival in Sète[4] in 2013.[2]