Sheida Mohamadi, Poet, fiction writer and Journalist, was born in Tehran, Iran. She is the first Poet in Residence at the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine for the 2015-2016 academic year. She was also a Poet in Residence at University of Maryland in 2010. Sheida has been a member of Pen Center USA since 2010.
She has published four books. The Moonlight Opened its Heart, Lady! Came out in 2001 and her second, a novel titled The Legend of Baba Leila, was published in 2005. Her third book The Snapshot of Lovemaking is a collection of poems, was published in 2007. Her most recent book, Crimson whispers, was published in 2015. Her Poems have been translated into different languages, including English, French, Arabic, Czech, Germany, Turkish, Kurdish and Swedish.