Afsheen Farhadi was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His debut novel, FALSE PROPHET (Spring 2026), is forthcoming from Melville House.

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.

He is represented by Emma Dries at Triangle House Literary.