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| TAMIM ANSARY was born and raised in Afghanistan and has lived in the United States since 1964. Author of West of Kabul, East of New York, he writes a column for encarta.com and is working on World History through Islamic Eyes, due out in spring of 2009. He has just edited and published Snapshots: This Afghan American Life, an anthology of work by fifteen young Afghan-Americans whom he mentored. His own short fiction has appeared in Gettysburg Review, Rosebud, Zyzzyva, Prism International, and others. Ansary directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop and teaches sporadically at the SF Osher Institute. |
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| ANITA AMIRREZVANI was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, has been sold to publishers in thirty countries and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the UK. |
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| PERSIS M. KARIM'S poetry has been published in a number of literary journals including Caesura, HeartLodge, Reed and Alimentum. She is editor and contributing poet to Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora (2006) and co-editor and contributor to A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans (1999). She is revising a manuscript of poetry, “Ways to Count the Dead” for publication. She teaches literature and creative writing at San Jose State University and lives in Berkeley. Please visit Persis Karim's website. |
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| SANDIP ROY is an editor with New America Media and host of its radio show UpFront on KALW 91.7 FM. He is a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition and writes regularly for ethnic and mainstream media publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, India Currents, India Abroad and others. |
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| NILOUFAR TALEBI, an award-winning translator, received a BA in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine, and an MFA in Writing and Literature form Bennington College. She founded The Translation Project to bring contemporary Iranian literature to worldwide audiences with innovative projects in books, film and multimedia. She has presented at numerous festivals and venues including the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, The National Arts Club, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Asia Society, the New York Public Library to name a few. Talebi is the editor / translator of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, August 2008). She created "Midnight Approaches", a DVD of short films, and "ICARUS / RISE", a multimedia theatrical piece, both based on the poetry in BELONGING. |
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