Taraneh was born in the middle of spring 1955 in the city of Mashad, Iran. She was seventeen when she married. Her family life took shape during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 Revolution. After the birth of her second child, and alongside the social transformations of that era, she found the opportunity to pursue her longstanding passion for studying literature.The cultural environment of Mashad, together with the encouragement of her family — especially her father — formed the earliest grounds for her love of reading and thinking. Her acquaintance with Persian literature and her inclination toward Islamic philosophy and mysticism shaped her intellectual and literary path from those early years. The study of classical Persian works and reflection on mystical concepts became the foundation for her inner world and narrative imagination.

Taraneh Habib was accepted into Ferdowsi University of Mashad, where she studied English Language and Literature. In the early years of the Iran-Iraq War, motivated and encouraged by her father, she engaged in extensive reading of philosophical and mystical works. During this period, the writings of Attar, Rumi, Mulla Sadra, and Mulla Hadi Sabzevari played a significant role in shaping her intellectual outlook.
After the war ended, she emigrated to the United States and continued her studies at George Mason University, where she earned her Master’s degree in English Literature. This experience of immigration and study in an international environment opened new horizons in her thought and literary perspective, and laid the ground for her serious entry into the world of writing.

On a cold autumn day in 2015, Taraneh Habib began writing in earnest and wrote her first surreal short story collection, Tanasokh (Transmigration), in Farsi. She then published the collections I Look and Do Not See and The Third Floor, the latter dealing with the lives of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
She also published the novel The Glass Apartment. In 2020, during the pandemic, she turned to creating artistic collages and composing Farsi poems inspired by Japanese haiku. The fruit of this experience was the book Thirty-Three Birds, published in Iran — the first of her works to have her poetry translated into English.
She subsequently wrote the book In the Mirror, the novel The Cherry Orchard, and several other short story collections. Her latest full-length novel, Ahoo Khanom and Davoud Khan, is still being written. She is also composing a collection of childhood memories and the early years of her life in the form of an autobiographical work.
In Habib’s writing, surreal elements, mysticism, philosophical reflection, memory, and lived experience are interwoven; her style is a blend of poetic imagination and inward vision.
Her published works to date are:

• Transmigration
• I Look and Do Not See
• The Third Floor
• The Glass Apartment
• Forty Windows
• In the Mirror
• Thirty-Three Birds
• The Cherry Orchard

Taraneh Habib is among those writers who began their literary path in middle age and transformed their lived experiences into literature. Her works, rooted in mystical concepts, the inner life of the human being, and spiritual experience, occupy a distinctive place in the contemporary Persian literary landscape.
Her inclination toward surreal fiction and short poems inspired by haiku reflects an intercultural approach throughout her work. Her writing mirrors the experience of life in both Iran and America, intertwined with philosophical and mystical reflection.
Taraneh continues to write. Her forthcoming works offer a glimpse into the ongoing passage of a creative spirit and the enduring momentum of her storytelling.