Laleh Khadivi

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran and is the author of three novels, The Age of Orphans, The Walking, and A Good Country, known as the Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, and NEA grant for the arts. She lives in California and is chair of the University of San Francisco MFA writing program.