Mahmoud Seraji

Mahmoud Seraji (Persian ) is a contemporary Persian poet, and author of numerous books, born in 1934 in the small town of Astara by the Caspian Sea. Much of his writing has been authored under the pen name, M. S. Shahed. According to his own biography, Seraji started writing poetry at the age of nine. Before earning his law degree from the University of Tehran, he worked in the Iranian Imperial government at the Ministry of Agriculture. Seraji immigrated to the United States where his son had lived since 1976. Seraji currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area near his son, Mahbod Seraji, author of Rooftops of Tehran. He has published many articles and poems in the websites www.iroon.com and www.iranian.com. There, he has found a literary forum to debate and discuss his opinions.