Summary
Afsheen Farhadi's 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 holds a Ph.D. 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.
Research interests
- Creative writing (fiction and nonfiction)
- Film
Courses taught
- ENG 305/306: Intermediate Creative Writing
- ENG 705: Fiction Writing Workshop
Education
- Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 2022
- MFA, Oregon State University, 2013
- B.A., Arizona State University, 2011