A Tale in Ruins

Aboutorab Khosravi (in Persian, بارتوبا یورسخ ) is an award-winning Iranian writer known for his surrealist short stories and novels, including The Book of Scribes (2000). A prominent member of Houshang Golshiri’s Jong-e Isfahan Circle, Khosravi is the recipient of the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award, the Houshang Golshiri Award, and the Iranian National Book Award. He lives in Shiraz.

Nayereh Doosti is a storyteller and translator from Shiraz, Bushehr, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2025 Steinbeck Fellowship,  the Epiphany Magazine Breakout 8 Writers Prize, the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award, a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, a GrubStreet Literary Grant, a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Bread Loaf Participant Scholarships for her fiction and translations, and a PEN Presents x Booker Prize Foundation Grant. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, The Common, The Massachusetts Review, and Nowruz Journal, among others. Her Persian translation of Aleksander Hemon’s The Book of My Lives was published by Goman Press in Tehran in spring 2024. She holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University and is currently working on a PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley.