Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the novels Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra, and an Assistant Professor in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as residency fellowships from MacDowell and Ledig House. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Guernica, Granta, BOMB, and elsewhere. She has lived in New York, Los Angeles, Tehran, Dubai, Valencia, Barcelona, and currently splits her time between South Bend, Indiana and Florence, Italy.
ARTICLES FEATURING AZAREEN
Literature as Lifeline: The Exile in “Call Me Zebra”
“Call Me Zebra” is a filthy love note to literature unabashedly luxuriating in its bookishness....
The Straight Way Was Lost: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s “Call Me Zebra”
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s “Call Me Zebra” threads narrative and theory to depict the isolating experience of exile....
The “Cosmological Nothingness” of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on unstable language, paranoid reading, and the Persian-French influences of her experimental thriller "Fra Keeler."...
