Bijan is a first generation Persian American born in Austin Texas where he still resides. He fell in love with poetry at the age of 17 when he first discovered poetry open mics from the back of the Austin Chronicle and met his friend Thom the world poet. In 2023, at the age of 34 he retired from being a senior site reliability engineer (software engineer) having been a self taught developer for the previous ten years. He has been a conscious freestyle rapper and musician and has published two poetry books in 2024. He speaks Spanish and Persian.