Reading: Mariam Rahmani

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her essays and fiction have recently appeared in Granta, Lux, the Los Angeles Times’ Image, and Gulf Coast, and her translation in n+1. Her 2021 translation of the contemporary Iranian cult hit, In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali, was well reviewed in The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Among her honors and awards are the 2021 Henfield Prize, the Columbia MFA’s highest honor in fiction, a 2018 PEN/Heim translation grant, and a US Fulbright fellowship. Her translation of In Case of Emergency was shortlisted for the National Translation Award awarded by ALTA and received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize by the MLA.

She currently teaches as a Lecturer at UCLA and with Catapult.