Author Biography

Melody Moezzi is a writer, activist, author and attorney. Her first book, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, published in the fall of 2007 by the University of Arkansas Press, earned her a Georgia Author of the Year Award. Moezzi has a regular column in Muslim Girl Magazine and has written essays and articles for several other print and online publications, including Parabola, Dissident Voice, American Chronicle, Urban Mozaik, and the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. Born in Chicago in 1979, Moezzi grew up mostly in Dayton, Ohio amid a strong and vibrant Iranian-American diaspora. Today, she lives in Atlanta, with her husband, Matthew, and their cats, Olyan and Talula. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Emory University School of Law, as well as the Emory University School of Public Health.

Read more about the author and War on Error:

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution: "Stereotype-defying young Muslims make writer's point" (3/2008)
When Melody Moezzi was looking for a publisher for her first book - at look at the lives of young American Muslims - two companies offered her the same deal: Find and interview a terrorist, and we'll give you an advance. [more]

One Nation: "New book explores diversity of American Muslim population" (12/2007)
Raised in Dayton, Ohio, Melody Moezzi took for granted being accepted as an individual and not being judged on her faith. [more] [profile]

Dayton Daily News: "Centerville grad writes about Muslims" (11/2007)
Melody Moezzi, a Muslim of Iranian descent who grew up in the Dayton area, would like the world to know she doesn't know any terrorists. That's one reason her new book, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, doesn't feature any. [more]

Publishers Weekly: "Humanizing Islam" (10/2007)
Melody Moezzi is dismayed by the portraits of Islam and her fellow Muslims she sees in the American press. [more]