Sahar Delijani

Sahar Delijani is the author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Washington Square Press, 2014), an internationally acclaimed novel that has been translated into thirty-two languages and published in more than seventy-five countries. She is the recipient of a de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Grant and a Society of Authors Author’s Foundation Grant, and of fellowships at Hedgebrook and Art Omi: Writers. Her work has been longlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best American Essays series. Delijani’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Slice Magazine, and more. Born in Iran in 1983, Delijani grew up in California and lived for many years in Turin, Italy. She currently lives in New York City, where she is writing her second novel.