Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi is a fiction writer who lives in Oakland, California. Her three books of the Kurdish Trilogy were named New York Times Editor’s Choice selections and won, among other awards, a Whiting Award, an NEA grant and the Stein Fellowship at Stanford. Her work has appeared in the SF Chronicle, VQR, LA Times and she is the chair of the University of San Francisco’s MFA Program.