Born: Unknown, Iran
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Dena Afrasiabi was born in Iran and raised in northern California. She earned an MFA in fiction from Rutgers-Newark University and a PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2015 and her work has received fellowship support from the Millay Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Marble House Project, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Currently, she lives in Austin, Texas, where she works as an editor of Middle Eastern literature in translation.