Short bio (100-words)

Sarvin Parviz (she/her) is a multi-genre writer & artist born in Tehran, Iran; the winner of Graduate and Professional Council Award in Creative Activities (2024) and a semifinalist in the European Opera-directing Prize (2025). Her repertoire includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, collages, mixed-media paintings, time-based art, and photography. Her song cycle, S(or)i, developed at FUSE: Collaborations in Song, had its world premier at MIT(2025). Her work has appeared in The Common, Fractured lit, Grain Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Apple Valley Review among others. She’s an alum of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Guerilla Opera and Aria Institute.

Slightly longer bio (152-words)

Sarvin Parviz (she/her) is a multi-genre writer & interdisciplinary artist born in Tehran, Iran. Her repertoire includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, collages, mixed-media paintings, time-based art, 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 & Libretti Lab. Her song cycle, S(or)i, developed at FUSE: Collaborations in Song, had its world premier at MIT in 2025. She is returning to the FUSE program in 2026 to develop a new song-cycle. Her work has appeared in The Common, Fractured lit, Grain Magazine, The Indianapolis Review, Apple Valley Review among others. A trained soprano and an alum of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Guerilla Opera and Aria Institute. She holds an MFA in Fiction and currently lives in Saint Louis with where she hosts a reading series.