Laleh Khadivi
Fiction, Film
Laleh Khadivi is the author of three novels, A Good Country, The Walking and The Age of Orphans. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle among others. Her awards and honors include the Whiting Award for Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Northern California with her two sons and is faculty at the University of San Francisco.