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 published in journals such as Lumina, caesura, Five Fingers Review, Rattapallax, Arte East, Private Photo Review, and anthologized -- American Poetry: The Next Generation, 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. She has completed her manuscript, In the Lap of the Gods: My Eight-&-a-Half-Month Marriage to an Impostor, while working on a second volume of poetry, Epic Leaving, and the screenplays Wonderful Her and To Live As I Like: The Marie B. Story. Her Collie dog Tanny 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 also a member of the Iranian American Writers Association.

She is also a painter. Born in Tehran, Katayoon now lives in California.

Thank you for your time and kind attention.

Yours in Light & Joy ~
Katayoon