Laleh Khadivi (born 1977) is an Iranian American novelist, and filmmaker.

Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[2] In 2002 she began to research the Kurds, particularly their fate in the southwestern region of Iran under the first Shah.

Her first novel, The Age of Orphans, is the story of a Kurdish boy whose father is killed in a battle with the Iranian army in 1921.

[4] She also taught creative writing at Santa Clara University during the 2010–2011 school year.