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Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Village Voice, The Chicago Reader, Marie Claire, Paper, Flaunt, Nylon, Bidoun, Canteen, nerve.com and FiveChapters.com, among others.
She has been awarded fellowships from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, Northwestern University, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Ucross Foundation, and The Corporation of Yaddo. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (Grove/Atlantic)--a New York Times "Editor's Choice," Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best," and 2007 California Book Award winner--is out in paperback. She currently teaches fiction at Bucknell University. For more information, see www.porochistakhakpour.com Around the Web
Author's Works
Sons and Other Flammable Objects: A Novel Buy this book on Amazon Find a local retailer Places that sell Sons and Other Flammable Objects: A NovelSons and Other Flammable Objects: A Novel Buy this book on Amazon Find a local retailer Places that sell Sons and Other Flammable Objects: A Novel |
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