Mariam Rahmani is working on a novel-in-progress and a translation from Persian/Farsi into English of Mahsa Mohebali’s Don’t Worry (2008) while pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA. She served as one of five inaugural writers in residence with The Mastheads in Pittsfield, MA, in 2017 and in 2016 participated in VONA/Voices, a workshop dedicated to writers of color. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus and in the Los Angeles Review of Books.