Iranian-Canadian Author

Stories that cross
borders, cultures
and silences.

Maryam Rafiee writes about what it costs to leave, what survives the crossing, and what it means to build a life between worlds. Her work — shaped by her father's imprisonment in Iran, her own immigration to Canada, and a decade of longing — has been published in The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, ROOM Magazine, and beyond.

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Maryam Rafiee, author

I write about the lives we leave behind — and the ones we dare to build.

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Maryam Rafiee

Maryam Rafiee

Maryam Rafiee is an Iranian Canadian lawyer, writer, and human rights advocate based in Toronto. Her work explores themes of displacement, political repression, memory, migration, and access to justice.

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