Following the Iranian cession of Nakhchivan to Russia in 1813, she and her family moved south of the Aras River, settling in the village of Khaneqah Sorkh.
She was born between 1785–1790,[2] and was a member of the Turkic-speaking[3] Kurdish Donboli tribe, which held administrative positions in the Azerbaijan region (Khoy, Tabriz and Salmas) in northwestern Iran.
She lived in Nakhchivan with her family and clan, but after Iran was forced to cede the territory to Russia in 1813, they moved to the south of the Aras River.
It was there that Karim Khan met the Iranian crown prince Abbas Mirza, who gave him possession over the village of Khaneqah Sorkh near Urmia, where Heyran's family then settled.
[2] Heyran mentions the epidemic that hit Azerbaijan between 1828–1832, mourning the death of the affected Shia Muslims, including the youth.
[12] Only women from a family of nobility or government officials had the chance to study or pursue a career in poetry during the Qajar era.
Heyran's poems are primarily about love; half of them depict the sorrow of a female poet recounting events from her life which she describes as uninteresting.
According to Karachi, Heyran's usage of repetitious, and occasionally outdated vocabulary may be due to her mother tongue being Azerbaijani Turkic.
She adds that Heyran also has poems of high quality,[17] and considers her to be one of the most successful female poets of the Qajar era.