SOMAYEH SHAMS

Somayeh Shams is an Iranian-born writer and Engineer with an MFA degree in fiction from Warren Wilson College. She has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook and a recipient of a merit scholarship at the New York Summer Writers Institute. An excerpt of the novel she is currently finishing has appeared in Waxwing. She is the prose editor and a regular contributor for Nimrod International Journal.

Photo by: Scott Noble

Photo by: Scott Noble

Publications

Comité, Waxwing

The Silenced Writer, Nimrod Blog

My Motivation, Nimrod Blog

Interview with Noah Stetzer, Nimrod Blog