Anita Amirrezvani

Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, has appeared in 34 languages and was long-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Equal of the Sun, has appeared in ten languages. She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate writing programs at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is currently at work on the libretto for an opera, “Earth 2.0.”