About

Mahru Elahi is a writer and ‘zine-maker living in San Francisco. She began creating and illustrating books in the third grade. During the 1980s, she discovered do-it-yourself magazines and later began a love affair with comic books, including a stint as an intern for the groundbreaking publisher, Milestone Media. She is author of a graphic novel, The Thorn Garden (EROS Comix) and recently had several pages of her ‘zine “Riding Rough Roads Really Slow” published in the anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights Foundation).

Mahru is addicted not only to ink, but also to words: she has taught literary arts for a decade. Her students include teachers, elementary school-age children, emerging adult writers, high school youth, women in prison, and middle schoolers in New York City. Mahru’s non-fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines, journals, and the anthology Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora (University of Arkansas Press).