In 1978, Golshiri travelled to the United States of America. Back in early 1979, Golshiri married Farzaneh Taheri whom he credits with editing his subsequent writing and was active in the revitalized Association Writers, the editing of journals, literary criticism, and short-story writing. In the 1980s, he published Massoum-e Panjom [The Fifth Innocent] (1980), Jobbeh’khaneh [The Antique Chamber] (1983), Hadis-e Mahigir va Div [The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon] (1984), and Panj Ganj [Five Treasures] (1989), which he published in Stockholm during a visit to Europe in 1989.
