Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1978. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars MA program. Her books include Sons and Other Flammable Objects, The Last Illusion, and Sick. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Village Voice, Vice, GQ, Paper, Nylon, Gear, Alef, Bidoun, Guernica, and Bookforum, among others.