Parsua Bashi was born on the 22nd of April 1966 in Tehran, Iran. She attended the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University(1984-1989), graduating in Graphic Design.

She started working professionally in 1985, while still a student. During the Iran-Iraq war her design activities were limited to working for a few advertising agencies. Besides gaining experience in advertising, packaging, typography, letter-head design and illustration, she worked with some well known literary and social magazines for which she designed logos, layouts and covers.

Since 1996 she has worked as a free lance designer,concentrating mainly on two areas: book covers for various Iranian publishers; posters and brochures for a vast field of cultural and artistic programs such as theatres, art festivals and concerts, many of which are organized by Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization. She published her first illustrated children's book "A Baby's First-Year Calendar Of Memories" in 1999. In the same year, she made an excursion into the field of fashion design. Of the fifty entries submitted to the jury, Parsua was one of ten designers whose works were selected for the fashion show "Shaherazad Goes To Milan".

Starting in 1986, when the first Biennial of Iranian Graphic Art took place at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, Parsua Bashi participated in all recurring exhibits. Further exhibits that included her work are: Two exhibitions of Printing and Packaging, The First Self-Promotion Posters Exhibition, 2002, and the First Book-Cover Design Annual Exhibition in 2003, all in Tehran.

She was awarded a Letter of Appreciation both from the Iranian Graphic Designer's Association and the Tehran International Book Fair. Further, she has been acknowledged as Iran's most active female designer of book covers.

Parsua Bashi has continuously cooperated with women publishers in Iran.

Living within the constraints of Iran's present society, she believes that in spite of limiting circumstances, one can attempt to create an individual vocabulary that allows for the expression of specific contents and values, and in this process she has done her best to preserve the spirit of Persian art and history in her work.

She has been living in Zurich since April 2004.

Her first Graphic Novel: "Nylon Road" is published by Kein & Aber Publishing in German in November 2006.

Nylon Road will be published in English by St. Martin's Press (US) and in Spanish by Norma Editorial in 2009.

This book has been awarded under the title: "still untitled", by Pro helvetia, The Art Council of Switzerland in 2005.