Yaghoub Yadali, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed
for television and worked for Roshd Magazine as the editor of the
film section. In addition to Rituals of Restlessness (2004) and
Sketches in the Garden (1997) , he is the author of the short story
collection Probablity of Merriment and Mooning (2001). His short
stories, articles, and essays are published in Iran, Turkey, and
the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa,
Harvard University, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, PA.
Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of contemporary
Iranian literature. Her translations include Censoring an Iranian
Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour, The Book of Fate by Parinoush
Saniee, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir by Shahrnush Parsipur,
and Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons by Goli Taraghi. She has also
translated several volumes of poetry by Forough Farrokhzad, Simin
Behbahani, Siavash Kasraii, and Fereydoon Moshiri. Her translations
of Mandanipour's short stories have appeared in the Literary
Review, the Kenyon Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, EPOCH,
Words without Borders, and PEN America. She lives in New York.
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