Katayoon Zandvakili

Katayoon Zandvakili was born in Tehran and now lives in California. Her collection of poetry, Deer Table Legs, won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series prize, and the book’s title poem was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in journals such as Lumina, caesura, Five Fingers Review, Rattapallax, and anthologized -- American Poetry: The Next Generation, Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora, and the 2008 Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. She is polishing her manuscript, In the Lap of the Gods: My Eight-&-a-Half-Month Marriage to an Impostor, while working on a novel, How My Manners Almost Killed Me, and two screenplays, Garance and To Live As I Like: The Marie B. Story. Her dog Tanny has penned his memoirs, The Invincible Gatsby. Katayoon is honored to serve on the MFA Advisory Board at St. Mary's College and as a consulting editor to NarrativeMagazine.com. She is also a painter.