Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gul墨 Taraqq墨) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely anthologized, including in Reza Aslan鈥檚 Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. She lives in Paris.