Bahar Momeni is an Iranian-American writer, educator, and human-rights advocate. She holds a PhD in Literature from The University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches creative writing and literature. Her bilingual work in Farsi and English has appeared in journals and anthologies across Iran, Europe, and the United States, with a focus on women’s resilience, migration, memory, and everyday forms of resistance.

Her honors include the 2023 Outstanding Emerging BIPOC Creator Award from UT Austin and the 2024 Future Art Writers Award from MOZAIK Philanthropy and San Francisco State University. In 2026, she received Culture of Value funding from the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture for her community-based project, What We Could Not Say: Narrative Healing and Immigrant Mental Health.

Her work and perspectives have been featured in several media outlets, including BBC Radio 4 and KERA/NPR.

Her debut semi-autobiographical graphic novel, The Trees We Carry, illustrated by Ayana Arian, is forthcoming in Spring 2027.