Nahid Rachlin was an Iranian-American novelist and short story writer. She was known as "perhaps the most published Iranian author in the United States."

She attended the Columbia University Writing Program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and later joined the Stanford University MFA program on a Stegner Fellowship.

Her publications include a memoir, PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin), four novels, JUMPING OVER FIRE (City Lights), FOREIGNER (W.W. Norton), MARRIED TO A STRANGER (E.P. Dutton-Penguin), THE HEART'S DESIRE (City Lights), and a collection of short stories, VEILS (City Lights). She also authored CROWD OF SORROWS (Kindle Singles).

Her individual short stories have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including The Virginia Quarterly Review.