Farideh de Bosset was born in Tehran, Iran, where poetry is part of everyday life and conversation. She lives and writes in Toronto. At the age of 18, she moved to Switzerland where she obtained her medical degree in psychiatry. She interned in Quebec and then moved to Toronto in 1972 for her residency. She received her fellowship in psychiatry in 1972, and was a staff psychiatrist and assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Toronto until 1991, when she established her private practice. Her poetry has been published in a number of literary journals across Canada. She lives and writes in Toronto.