Ehsan Azari is a Sydney-based Afghan writer - born in a village near the Afghan capital, Kabul in 1958. He graduated from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kabul Polytechnic Institute in 1985.

He never devoted himself to engineering. After obtaining a BSc in civil engineering, he began work as a writer and literary editor with The Kabul Times. During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, he joined anti-communist resistance and then migrated to Pakistan in 1989, working as editor of WUFA-a literary and academic journal in Peshawar. In 1992, he migrated to Australia. After completion of a brief qualifying program, he was accepted in the MA program of School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, in Sydney. He obtained his MA thesis, which was on