Kiyash Monsef

About The Author

Kiyash Monsef is the author of Once There Was, which received a William Morris Honor, and its sequel, Bird of a Thousand Stories. He's also an Emmy Award-nominated documentary producer and director. He lives in California.

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Books by Kiyash Monsef

Bird of a Thousand Stories

By Kiyash Monsef

In this “breathless…entrancing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) companion to the New York Times bestselling Once There Was that’s perfect for fans of Impossible Creatures, Marjan travels around the globe in search of a mythical bird in terrible danger, whose fate c...

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Once There Was

By Kiyash Monsef

A New York Times bestseller!
A Morris Award Finalist

Impossible Creatures meets Neil Gaiman in this “striking and heartfelt” (Kirkus Reviews) novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to magical...

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