Faculty Reading with Mariam Rahmani

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us for a reading to celebrate Mariam Rahmani's debut novel, Liquid, A Love Story, coming out in March 2025.

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her debut novel, Liquid, A Love Story, comes out with Algonquin and Doubleday in March 2025. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications like Granta, New York Magazine, People, and the Los Angeles Times’ Image Magazine, and her translation in n+1, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. Liquid is currently being translated into Dutch and Croatian.

Rahmani’s first book-length translation, of the contemporary Iranian cult hit novel In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali, was well reviewed in The New Yorker and The New York Times, named a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. Her work as a translator has been distinguished with a PEN/Heim grant and two shortlists, for ALTA’s National Translation Award and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize by the MLA. She is now working on her next translation, of Farzaneh Milani’s The Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad (Liveright 2026), offering a window into the life and work of this beloved midcentury poet and rebel.

Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. Among her awards are a US Fulbright fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship with the American Council for Learned Societies, and the Henfield Prize, the Columbia MFA’s highest honor in fiction.

She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and on the advisory and editorial boards of Acacia, a new magazine for the Muslim left.