10.07.07: POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran, Iran in 1978 and her first language is Farsi. She was raised in the Los Angeles area. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars MA program, where she was awarded the prestigious Elliot Coleman Fellowship. She has also received a fellowship from the Northwestern University Academy for Alternative Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Paper, Nylon, and Flaunt among others. She currently lives in New York City.
Her debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, was published in September 2007.

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