Ali Araghi is the author of The Immortals of Tehran (Melville House, 2020) and the winner of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. He edited and translated the anthology I AM A FACE SYMPATHIZING WITH YOUR GRIEF: SEVEN YOUNGER IRANIAN POETS (co-im-press, 2015). His writing and translations have been published in The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Asymptote, among others.