Events

What does it mean to be an "emerging" writer, and how can you bust out of your cocoon and bring your words to the world?

Trauma, racial injustice, rape culture, family relationships, body image: we all carry these weights around with us in our own way. How can we examine and write about them without crumbling under their weight? 

The girls chat with Rebecca Morrison - a lawyer turned writer who recently went viral with a piece she wrote for the Today show.

We’re pleased to invite you to a special afternoon of conversation and a book signing with local author Rebecca Morrison, co-hosted by Bijan Ghaisar Library and Pars Place, in conversation with Termeh Rassi.

Join us as we welcome author Rebecca Morrison as she signs her young people's novel, The Blue Dress! We love hosting authors and even more so when they're local!

We’re so delighted to welcome Rebecca Morrison to Secret World Books (all the way from the DC area!) in celebration of her middle grade novel, The Blue Dress on Saturday, May 30 at 4pm!

Rebecca Morrison was born in Iran, immigrated to the United States in my teens. In 2020, after practicing law for over two decades, she decided to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Newsweek, The Independent and HuffPost, among others. Her debut novel, The Blue Dress, based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant trying to fit into her family's expectations of beauty and her American homeland is coming out on March 24, 2026.

Rebecca Morrison is the author of “The Blue Dress,” a middle-grade novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant trying to fit into her new American homeland, and her family’s expectations of beauty. 

Rebecca Morrison is the author of  The Blue Dress, a novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant trying to fit into her new American homeland and her family’s expectations of beauty.