Anita Amirrezvani is an Iranian writer who grew up in San Francisco. She has made a career in writing and editing, and worked as a dance critic and arts writer in San Francisco.

Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, was published in 2007 and heralded by Publishers Weekly, Vogue, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. The novel also was featured in the 2007 Kirkus Reviews First Fiction Spotlight.