Katayoon Zandvakili

Katayoon Zandvakili's 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 anthologized -- American Poetry: The Next Generation, A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans, Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, and The Poetry of Iranian Women -- and published in journals such as Lumina, caesura, Five Fingers Review, Rattapallax, Arte East, Private Photo Review, and narrativemagazine.com.

Katayoon has completed her novel, In the Lap of the Gods: My Eight-&-A-Half-Month Marriage to an Impostor, while working on a second volume of poetry, The Girl King Sings Songs of Epic Leaving, Red-Leafed Shame & Yellow Uprising, and the screenplays Wonderful Her and To Live As I Like: The Marie B. Story. Her Collie dog Tintin has also penned his illustrated 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, and is a member of the Iranian American Writers Association.

She is also a painter. Of Persian heritage, she considers herself a global citizen.

With gratitude for your time and kind attention.

With Light & Joy,
Katayoon