Ezzat Goushegir (Persian: عزت گوشهگیر) is a fiction writer and playwright born in Iran and living in the U.S. since 1986.
She began her playwriting career in 1976 when her first play "Beginning of Bloom" was produced for Iranian National Television followed by the “Middle East Odyssey” at Culture and Art Hall in Tehran.
Several theater companies U.S., Canada, China, England, Sweden, and Iran have produced her plays.
She currently contributes a weekly memoir and many other writings to Shahrvand, the Persian-language magazine based in Toronto, and since 2003 she has taught at DePaul University in Chicago.
[2] She is a regular contributor to literary journals, and her writing has appeared in publications in Iran, Europe, and Canada.