Laleh Khadivi
Laleh Khadivi was born in Iran and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the director of 900 Women (2001), a documentary about St. Gabriel Women’s Prison in Louisiana narrated by Susan Sarandon, and the author of the novel The Age of Orphans, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in March. She is the 2007-2009 Fiction Fellow at Emory University and received one of this year’s Whiting Writing Awards.
Published in VQR
The Virginia Quarterly Review