Sarvin Parviz

Writer/Artist

Sarvin Parviz (she/her) is a multi-genre writer & multimedia artist born in Tehran, Iran. Her repertoire includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, collages, mixed-media paintings, time-based art, installation and photography. She is the winner of Graduate and Professional Council Award in Creative Activities (2024) and a semifinalist in the European Opera-directing Prize (2025) who developed her first opera at Guerilla Opera Writing Collective (2025). Her song cycle, S(or)i, was developed at FUSE: Collaborations in Song and had its world premiere at MIT in 2025. Her work has appeared in The Common, Fractured Lit, Grain Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Apple Valley Review among others. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently is based in Saint Louis where she hosts and organizes a monthly community reading series. As usual, she is working on multiple projects, one of which is a collection of micro-fiction.

Poets & Writers Page

Recent Publications

Nonfiction

I/Teh Ran, The Common

Artwork

After the Next Goodbye Party, Storm Cellar, Issue 11.2 (print edition/ebook)

Chandelier, Oyster River Pages

Untitled, Oyster River Pages

Untitled Photo , L’Esprit magazine

Through The Carpet I See A New World, Backchannels Journal

Fiction

True Story 1-10, Fractured Lit (2025)

The Music Teacher ,Roi Finéant Literary Press (2022)
FlashFlood Journal, (Republication, 2025)

Libretti

S(or)i (Song Cycle with FUSE Program)

Interviews

Oyster River Pages 2024 Interview with me

Poetry

In the Palm Reader’s Tent, (The Indianapolis Review 2026)

Flight PS752 (The Indianapolis Review, 2026)

Portrait of a Poem in Three Paintings (Grain, 200th issue)

To Make A Home Together (Grain, 200th issue)

On a Walk After Reading NEWS of Tehran: Another Writer Sent to Prison , The Indianapolis Review
So We Write This , The Indianapolis Review

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S(or)i, song cycle developed at FUSE: Collaborations in Song

A Water Bird Talk by Dominick Argento (MDW, Vienna, December 2024). Directing and Stage: Mahour Arbabian, Dramaturgy: Sarvin Parviz. Photo Credit: Samuel Feldhandler

Memberships:

Poets and Writers

Opera America

The Dramatists Guild