Porochista Khakpour
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Porochista Khakpour (Persian: پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist.
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Born | Porochista Khakpour (1978-01-17) January 17, 1978 (age 46) Tehran, Iran |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist, journalist |
Education | Sarah Lawrence College (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) |
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Years active | 2000–present |
Notable works | Sons and Other Flammable Objects The Last Illusion Sick Brown Album |
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A refugee from Iran whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution,[1] Khakpour grew up in the Greater Los Angeles area[2] before moving to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College.[3]
She is the author of four books, including her 2007 debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007). Her nonfiction essays have been published in The New York Times, Guernica, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Paris Review Daily, Slate, Elle, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.[4]