About

Mehdi M. Kashani is a writer based in Toronto, Canada. His debut short story collection, A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories, was published by the University of Alberta Press in August 2026.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Passages North, The Rumpus, Catapult, The Malahat Review, Wigleaf, The Walrus, Bellevue Literary Review, Four Way Review, The Minnesota Review, Emrys Journal, The Fiddlehead, West Branch, CRAFT, and Coolest American Stories 2025, among others.

His work has been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Awards and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He won the 2019 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award.

He lives in Toronto with his partner and their baby daughter, and is at work on a novel.