Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-11/what-i-saw-at-the-revolution/ It's all about the Iranian Revolution (it's the 30th anniversary), an event that totally altered the course of my life. . . even though I was one when it went down. The essay is actually about its aftermath and my family's early life in the Eighties in the Los Angeles diaspora. Let me know what you think. ...
Bill Marx of the World Books podcast did a nice interview with me right after my Brooklyn Book Festival reading:http://www.theworld.org/?q=aggregator/sources/61 [Porochista Khakpour's first novel, "Sons and Other Flammable Objects," garnered enthusiastic reviews for its tragi-comic treatment of the trails and tribulations of an Iranian-American family. She talks to World Books editor ...
