The Rumi Prescription : How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life

Melody Moezzi is a writer, speaker, activist, commentator, columnist, attorney and award-winning author. Her books include War on Error:

Real Stories of American Muslims, The Rumi Prescription, and Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life, which earned wide critical acclaim and broke new ground as the first mainstream mental health memoir by either a Muslim or a Middle-Easterner.

Moezzi is a blogger for Ms. magazine, and a featured regular columnist, blogger, and vlogger for bp [Bipolar] Magazine.

She maintains her own YouTube channel and video blog, A Saner Spin, answering readers’ questions and addressing a variety of issues, including mental health, wellness and spirituality. Moezzi’s writing has appeared on NPR and CNN, and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Hürriyet, and the South China Morning Post, among many other outlets.