Mayselun Hadi was born in 1954 in Baghdad. She graduated in Management and Economics from Baghdad University. Since her first collection of short stories Al-Shakhs al-Thalith [The Third Person] in 1980 she has published four further collections, three novels and ten children’s science fiction and adventure books. She works for Alif-Ba’ magazine in Baghdad.
Her work appears in Banipal 14, a special issue on Iraqi writers, and in Contemporary Iraqi Fiction.