Sahar Delijani

Sahar Delijani is the author of Children of the Jacaranda Tree (2013), an internationally acclaimed novel, translated into 32 languages and published in more than 75 countries. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, McSweeney’s, BOMB, Jewish Currents, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a de Groot Foundation COURAGE to WRITE Grant, a Society of Authors and Authors’ Foundation Grant, and fellowships at Hawthornden Foundation, Tin House, Art Omi, and Hedgebrook. Her work has furthermore been short-listed for the Granum Prize and nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best American Essay series. Delijani has appeared on Democracy Now!, ABC News, Al Jazeera, BBC, NPR, and Channel 4 News to discuss Iran and the political realities of the region. Born in Iran, Delijani lives in New York City. Her second novel, For Every Person You Kill, is forthcoming in spring 2027.