Gina B. Nahai is the author of Cry of the Peacock, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Sunday's Silence and Caspian Rain. She lives in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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Biography

Gina B. Nahai was born in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

, and educated in Switzerland

Switzerland

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and the United States. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. She is currently working on a new novel, In the Kingdom of the Pearl Canon.

External links

• Official Site of Gina B. Nahai

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