Author - Iris Dorbian

Iris Dorbian is an arts and business journalist and award-winning novelist. As a journalist, she has covered a wide range of sectors that include small business, media, private equity/venture capital, and theater/the arts. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Thomson Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Crain's New York Business, Business Insider, PE Hub, Buyouts, Venture Capital Journal, Investopedia, Playbill, Backstage, Theatermania, Media Industry Newsletter, PRNews, and Stage Directions, where she served as editor-in-chief for eight years. She is the author of Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater, published by Allworth Press/Skyhorse Publishing in August 2008; An Epiphany in Lilacs: In the Aftermath of the Camps, originally published by Mazo Publishers in January 2017 and republished with third edition by Sunbury Press/Milford House Press 2025; Sentenced to Shakespeare, published by Sunbury Press/Milford House Press in July 2019; and the award-winning Next Stop, Boston, published by Black Pawn Press in 2023.

Next Stop, Boston was a 2024 Firebird Book Award Winner in the coming of age and best plot twist categories, a Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner: Fiction, a Spring 2024 Readers' Choice Book Award Finalist in the best adult book category and a 2024 Storytrade Book Awards finalist in the contemporary fiction category. 

Dorbian’s personal essays and short stories have been featured in HBO's "Inspiration Room," Blue Lyra Review, B O D Y, Boomer Magazine, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Gothesque Magazine, and Jewish Literary Journal. A New Jersey native, Iris has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.