Mandana Chaffa is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters, and a Daily Editor at Chicago Review of Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several anthologies, as well as in The Ploughshares Blog, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, Jacket2, and elsewhere. Born in Tehran,