Sanam Mahloudji

Sanam Mahloudji, born in Tehran in 1977, is an American writer. She grew up in Los Angeles after her family fled to the United States during the Iranian Revolution. Before turning to writing, she worked as a lawyer in finance and at a court in Manhattan. Her essays and short stories appeared in publications including McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, Idaho Review, and Passages North. She received a Pushcart Prize for her literary work, and in 2018 one of her short stories was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her debut novel, Die Perserinnen, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.