Mandana Zandian, born in Esfahan, Iran in 1971 and graduated from Shahid Beheshti Medical School in 1997.
She worked as a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for 20 years, specializing in research on aggressive forms of advanced cancers.
Dr. Zandian is also a published poet and author actively collaborating with “Rahavard” quarterly journal.
Her books include:
“Omid o Azadi” (Hope and Liberty) on the life and works of Iraj Gorgin – Los Angeles, 2012;
“Baz-khani-e Dah Shab” (The Ten-Nights Revisited) – Los Angeles, 2014;
“Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian” – Los Angeles, 2016;
She also editted “Yaddashtha” (Diaries) – A collection of notes written between 1986-2012 for the journals “Irannameh” and “Iranshenasi” by Dr. Ehsan Yarshater – Washington DC, 2021.
Zandian’s most recent collection of poems titled “Seda-ye Saye-haye Ham Boodim” (Our Voice Echoed the Shadows of all)- Los Angeles-2019.
Zandian is also the host and producer of a podcast on Persian Literature titled “A Window of Freedom.”
Her latest book is titled “Persian Cypress and the Booms of Modernity, in Conversation with Abbas Milani” – Los Angeles, 2023.
