The Shipwrecked Contemporary Stories by Women from Iran

Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International Service. She teaches courses on gender and social change in the Middle East, Iran, and the history of US-Iran relations.

Sara Khalili is a financial journalist, editor, and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her published translations include As Red as Fire Tasting of Smoke, Selected Poems of Siavash Kasraii; Lucky those Half-Opened Buds, Selected Poems of Fereydoon Moshiri; several short stories in Strange Times My Dear: A PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature; and various short stories by Shahriar Mandanipour. Khalili won a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant for her translation from the Farsi of Seasons of Purgatory, a selection of short stories by Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour.

Faridoun Farrokh is a professor of English at Texas A&M International University. His research interests include contemporary Persian fiction, eighteenth-century English literature, and rhetoric and composition. He has published numerous articles in English and Persian and is the translator of A Mansion in the Sky and Other Stories by Goli Taraghi.