Pouya is a writer and freedom advocate who escaped the poverty and oppression of Iran at age 18, beginning an arduous seven-year journey to freedom that led him to the United States. Inspired by technology and a childhood viewing of the movie Ratatouille, he decided to risk everything to live in a better world. Facing impossible immigration barriers, he took the only way out: he was trafficked throughout East Asia and Europe, where he was stripped of his right to work and faced cruelty, starvation, and rape.

Despite facing inhumane, often systematic injustices throughout his life, Pouya maintained his childhood admiration for the progress humanity has already made. Through his writing, he aims to inspire readers to appreciate the virtues of our existing society and makes a case for maintaining hope while dealing with its numerous cruelties and injustices.