Sepideh Zamani (born 1973 in Iran) graduated from law school in 1999 and moved to United States two years later. Her essays, short stories, novels and poems focus on immigration, gender inequality, and the live of ethnic and religious minorities under cultural and religious cleansing and assimilation. Her book collections include: Barbuda, short stories, published in Persian in 2016; Ouroboros, her first novel, published in London in 2018; and Women Looking at the Sky, short stories, published in 2019. Forthcoming in 2020 is collection of short stories Sleeping in a Dark Cave. She also translates from and into Persian. She translated The Divine Kiss from Carolyn Kleefeld and Pumpernickel from Stanley Barkan into Persian. Zamani is a member and Persian translator of the cultural foundation ITHACA of Point Editions.
