This is a list of short story Iranian writers either born in Iran or holding Iranian citizenship, also Non-Iranian Persian short story writers and short story writers of Iranian descent.

• Bozorg Alavi
• Ghazaleh Alizadeh
• Ahmad Akbarpur
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales : Persian poet, also wrote some stories
• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
• Ali Ashraf Darvishian
• Yosuf Ali-Khani
• Mahshid Amir-Shahi
• Salar Abdoh
• Habib Ahmad-Zadeh
• Reza Allameh-Zadeh
• Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani : journalist, women's rights activist, also wrote short stories
• Ali Mohammad Afghani
• Reza Amirkhani

• Reza Baraheni
• Samad Behrangi

• Sadeq Chubak

• Simin Daneshvar
• Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi

• Mahmoud Etemadzadeh

• Bahman Forsi
• Pooran Farrokhzad

• Ibrahim Golistan
• Houshang Golshiri
• Houshang Gol-Makani

• Sadeq Hedayat
• Mohammad Hijazi

• Nader Ibrahimi

• Mohammad ali Jamal-Zadeh
• Sepideh Jodeyri, poet, translator and journalist also published a short story collection
• Parviz Jahani

• Nasim Khaksar
• Kamshad Kooshan : is an Iranian-American Movie Writer and Director, also wrote short story.
• Hakob Karapents

• Bahman Motamedian
• Mostafa Mastoor
• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Abbas Maroufi
• Shokooh Mirzadegi
• Jaafar Modarres-Sadeghi
• Fereshteh Molavi
• Houshang Moradi Kermani
• Jamal Mir-Sadeghi
• Aziz Mo'tazedi
• Mahshid Moshiri
• Javad Mujabi
• Shahriar Mandanipour

• Bijan Najdi
• Ata Nahaei
• Saeed Nafisi

• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Iraj Pezashk-Zad
• Zoya Pirzad
• Parween Pazhwak

• Muniro Ravanipur
• Fozia Rahgozar
• Atiq Rahimi

• Hossein Sanapour
• Mahasti Shahrokhi
• Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
• Asef Soltanzadeh
• Ahmad Shamloo : Persian poet, also wrote short stories
• Sana Safi
• Sepideh Shamlou
• Marzieh Sotoudeh

• Mohammad Tolouei
• Shabnam Tolouei
• Goli Taraghi

• Fariba Vafi

• Mehri Yalfani

• Gol-Mohammad Zhowandai

• Persian literature
• List of Iranian writers
• List of Persian-language poets and authors