Creative Nonfiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Fulbright U.S. Scholar (2021-2022)
New Music USA (2017)
National Endowment for the Arts (Opera Project) (2017)
Creative Work Fund (2016)
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation (2016)
California Arts Council (2016)
San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant (2014-2022)
Center for Cultural Innovation (2014-2020)
Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World nominated for the Northern California Book Award (2008)
PEN American Center / NYSCA “Anthology in Translation" Award (2007)
American Literary Translators Association Fellowship (2005)
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2005)
International Center for Writing and Translation Prize (2004)