Zoya Pirzad (also spelled as Zoyā Pirzād; Persian: زویا پیرزاد; Armenian: Զոյա Փիրզադ; born 1952 in Abadan) is an Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. Her mother is Iranian Armenian and her father comes from a Russian background.[1] She grew up in Tehran and is now married with two sons, Sasha and Shervin.