The Poet. Nahid Fattahi is an Afghan-American writer, activist, and mental health practitioner who uses storytelling and poetry to create new narratives of refugees and others whose voices are often silenced. She works in the San Francisco Bay Area as an adjunct professor of psychology and as a psychotherapist. Nahid’s VR story is a tribute to the gift of poetry that she received from her father. As a young girl, she wrote her first poem at age eight and used to recite poetry for guests in her family’s home in Afghanistan, until they were forced to flee the country during its war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. After subsequently being trafficked as a child bride, Nahid arrived in the U.S. with a book of poems inscribed with a still-intact dedication from her now-deceased father. She cherishes the book and dedication to this day.