Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn in 1968 to an Iranian father and a Jewish American mother. He grew up in Pittsburgh. He is an award-winning fiction writer, memoirist and playwright. His memoir When Skateboards Will Be Free received a Whiting Writers’ Award.
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Poetry | The Online Edition
A Description of the Architectural Impact of My Home, Age 7
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘my apartment is neither over / nor under the sidewalk, / but both at once’
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Susan Orlean and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh in Conversation
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh & Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh discuss the difficulties of turning personal narratives into book-length projects.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Keeping it in the family
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘He had abandoned me, after all, when I was nine months old, mostly so that he could devote his time, energy and money to the cause of workers’ revolution.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 91
When Skateboards Will Be Free
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘My mother and father believe that the United States is destined one day to be engulfed in a socialist revolution.’
