To Live Again

Born in 1981, Aliyeh Ataei is an Afghan writer who received her degree in dramatic writing from the University of Tehran. She is the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction, in her native Persian, all of which have won some of Iran’s most prestigious awards. Translations of her works into English can be found in such publications as Guernica, Words Without Borders, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Ataei lives and works in Tehran.  

Salar Abdoh’s most recent book is Out of Mesopotamia (Akashic Books, 2020), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, which will be released in paperback in August. He lives and works in Tehran and New York City, where he teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York.