Nahid Bagheri-Goldchmied. She is a writer of lyrics and prose. She is a native of Tehran. There, she was a journalist and majored in Persian languages and literature in Tehran. Since 1980, she has lived in Vienna. She is the founder and editor of the Persian-German cultural magazine Sokhane Ashena (Confidential Conversations). Ms. Bagheri-Goldschmied is the founder and president of the Iranian Cultural and Artists' Association in exile, Marzpeyma (Border Crossing). In 2007, she became a member and single delegate of the Association of Authors, the Austrian PEN Club, the Austrian Writers' Association, and the Theodor Kramer Society,