Porochista Khakpour

Although her debut novel, Sons and other Flammable Objects is written in English, Porochista Khakpour's first language is actually Farsi. Porochista Khakpour was in fact born in Tehran, Iran before her family moved to Pasadena, California where we was raised. Moving to New York and writing as a entertainment journalist, Khakpour apparently left the trade and actually cranked out a novel. With it's success, Khakpour now teaches Fiction at Bucknell University.