Ferdos Heidari

Ferdos Heidari is a lecturer and scholar with MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis on playwriting and MA in English Composition from San Francisco State University. In addition, she holds three certificates: Teaching English Composition, Teaching Post-Secondary Reading, and Teaching English as Foreign Language. She is currently pursuing PhD in English. Her research and teaching interests include linguistic justice, digital rhetoric, and culturally sustaining pedagogies in composition and creative writing classrooms. Passionate about empowering diverse student voices, Ferdos integrates innovative strategies such as digital gardening and reflective inquiry into her teaching practice. Outside of teaching, she writes plays and has won numerous awards for her newest play Saffron Stain.