Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast, BOMB Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Rumpus, among other venues. She is the recipient of the 2021 Henfield Prize, the Columbia MFA’s highest honor in fiction, for work on her debut novel. Her translation of Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency, supported in part by a 2018 PEN/Heim grant, is forthcoming with Feminist Press this November.
‘Translation had always struck me as unsexy. Or perhaps something more insidious than that.’
On translating In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali.
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