Her father, Hashem Moussavi, was a well-known sound engineer in Iranian National TV (Jaam-e Jam) and in the film industry, and her mother, Parvin Chegini Farahani, was a video grader.
These included Hamid Samandarian's drama workshops at the Theatre Organization of Tehran, and Mahin Oskoui's underground acting classes held in her apartment.
Granaz published her first book, Khatkhati Rooye Shab خط خطی روی شب (Sketching On Night), underground in Tehran in 1996, to an extensive reception.
She published her third collection, Avazhaye Zan e Biejazeh آوازهای زن بی اجازه (The Songs of the Forbidden Woman), in 2003.
[citation needed] Granaz published Les Rescapes De La Patience (translated by Farideh Rava and with a preface by Jean Baptiste Para) after a sponsored literary residency in Saint Nazaire, France.
[citation needed] In 2004 a DEA thesis at Sorbonne University (Paris III) on her poetry was lodged by Etienne Forget.
[4] Much has been written about Granaz's poetry, including by some renowned Iranian writers and critics such as M. Azad, Jalil Doustkhah, Mohammad Rahim Okhovat, Shahrnoush Parsipour, and Ali Babachahi.
In 2006, being shortlisted in local, statewide, and across-the-country competitions, she won the Holding Redlich prize for her script "pitch" at the Screen Producers Association of Australia.