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, 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 second volume of poetry, Epic Leaving, and the screenplays Garance, What the BlueJay Said, and To Live As I Like: The Marie B. Story. Her dog Tanny has penned his illustrated memoirs, The Invincible Gatsby, which is being edited posthumously. 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 and actor.