Mariam Rahmani Translator & Author

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Granta, Gulf Coast, n+1, and elsewhere. Her first translation from Farsi, of the contemporary Iranian cult hit novel In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali, was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker. She is now translating Farzaneh Milani’s definitive biography of the influential midcentury poet Forugh Farrokhzad, while working on her second novel. Rahmani holds a PhD from UCLA and an MFA from Columbia, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She teaches at Bennington College.