Porochista Khakpour is the award-winning Iranian-American author of the novels Sons and Other Flammable Objects, The Last Illusion, and Tehrangeles, as well as the memoir Sick and essay collection Brown Album. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Bookforum, Elle, Slate, and many others. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. She has taught at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Bard, Wesleyan, Fordham, and more for the past twenty years. Her most recent book Tehrangeles (Pantheon, 2024) was an Indie Next Pick, an NPR Book of the Day, one of TIME’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2024, as well as one of the “Best Books of 2024” by Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and W; it has also been longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.  She was born in Tehran, raised in LA’s San Gabriel Valley, and currently lives in NYC’s Harlem.  For more info see porochistakhakpour.com.