American writer
Porochista Khakpour (
Persian : پوروچیستا خاکپور, born January 17, 1978) is an
Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist.
A refugee from
Iran whose family fled the
Iran-Iraq War and the
Islamic Revolution ,
[1] Khakpour grew up in the
Greater Los Angeles area
[2] before moving to
New York to attend
Sarah Lawrence College .
[3]
She is the author of four books, including her 2007 debut novel
Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007). Her nonfiction essays have been published in
The New York Times ,
Guernica ,
Los Angeles Times ,
CNN ,
The Paris Review Daily ,
Slate ,
Elle ,
The Guardian , and
The Wall Street Journal .
[4]
Early life
Khakpour was born on January 17, 1978, in
Tehran ,
Iran .
[5] Her first name, Porochista, is of ancient
Zoroastrian origin
[6] and derives from “Pourucista”, one of
Zarathustra ’s daughters.
[7]
Her parents, Manijeh and Asha Khakpour, met while working together at the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
[8] Manijeh is an
accountant , while Asha is a theoretical
nuclear physicist who attended
MIT on a full
scholarship .
[9] Khakpour’s paternal grandmother was from the village of
Garakan , while her mother’s family is from
Hamadan .
[10] Khakpour’s maternal great-uncle,
Akbar Etemad , was the AEOI’s founding president and is regarded as “the father of
Iran’s nuclear programme .”
[11]
Khakpour has described herself as an “infant of the
Islamic Revolution and [a] toddler of the
Iran-Iraq War ”.
[12] After the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, her family fled Iran as
refugees , transiting through
Turkey ,
France , and
Switzerland before eventually resettling in the
Greater Los Angeles area.
[13] As a 3-year-old refugee crisscrossing
Europe on trains, Khakpour told her parents stories to pass the time,
[14] which her father wrote down and she would illustrate.
Khakpour has written of her family’s life as a “riches-to-rags” story.
[15] When Khakpour’s family first arrived in the
United States , they lived in a hotel on
Skid Row in
Downtown Los Angeles ; she played daily in nearby
MacArthur Park .
[16] Her family made their way to the
San Gabriel Valley , briefly living in
Monterey Park
[17] and
Alhambra
[18] before finally moving into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom
dingbat apartment in
South Pasadena , where Khakpour grew up.
[19] Until age 17, Khakpour shared a small bedroom with her younger brother.
[20]
Her family was “one of a few isolated lower-middle-class Iranian families” in South Pasadena, far away from the affluent
Iranian-American enclave of
Tehrangeles centered on the Westside of
Los Angeles .
[21] She first began writing novels in elementary school.
[22]
Education
Khakpour grew up as the only Iranian at her elementary school, middle school, and high school.
[23] She was the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper,
[24] graduating from
South Pasadena High School in 1996.
[25]
Khakpour received a Hearst Scholarship to attend
Sarah Lawrence College ,
[26] where she studied under
Danzy Senna
[27] and
Victoria Redel .
[28] During her junior year, she studied abroad in
England at the
University of Oxford 's
Wadham College .
[29] Khakpour graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 2000 with a BA in liberal arts, with a concentration in creative writing and literature.
[30]
In 2001, Khakpour was living in the
East Village , where she witnessed the
9/11 attacks from the windows of her then-boyfriend’s twenty-fifth floor
Manhattan apartment.
[31] As a
Middle Eastern American , she has described the attacks as “the turning point of my life.”
[32] Khakpour has been described as a “9/11-era chronicler”,
[33] and the attacks figure prominently in both of her first two novels,
Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion .
[34] Khakpour became an American citizen in November 2001, two months after the 9/11 attacks.
[35]
Khakpour received her MA in creative writing from
Johns Hopkins University and the
Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars program in 2003, where she studied under
Stephen Dixon and
Alice McDermott .
[36]
After graduating from Hopkins, Khakpour was named a 2003 fellow of the academy for Alternative Journalism at
Northwestern University ’s
Medill School of Journalism .
[37] At Medill, Khakpour was mentored by Charles F. Whitaker.
[38] While a reporting fellow at
The Chicago Reader , she spent three months reporting undercover
[39] on
Skydive Chicago , then the deadliest skydiving center in rural
Illinois .
[40]
Career
Writing
Before publishing her first novel, Khakpour worked as a journalist, covering arts and entertainment as well as producing in-depth
investigative journalism .
[41] As a 19-year-old student at Sarah Lawrence, she interned at
The Village Voice , where she was published for the first time.
[42] She later interned at
Spin magazine.
[43] In the early 2000s, she was a columnist at both
Paper and
New York magazines,
[44] and wrote articles for
MTV.com ,
BET.com ,
VH1.com ,
Gear , Flaunt , and
Urb .
[45]
At age 29, Khakpour published her debut novel,
Sons and Other Flammable Objects , in September 2007.
[46] It has been interpreted as a response to and "rewriting" of
Sadegh Hedayat 's
The Blind Owl .
[47] Sons and Other Flammable Objects was recognized as a
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice,
[48] won the 77th
California Book Award in First Fiction.,
[49] and included on the
Chicago Tribune ' s 2007 "Fall's Best" list. The novel was also shortlisted for the
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing , and longlisted for the 2008
Dylan Thomas Prize .
[50] An Italian edition was published by
Bompiani in 2009.
[51]
In 2011, she was the guest editor of
Guernica 's first Iranian-American issue,
[52] curating works from writers including
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh ,
Azadeh Moaveni ,
Nahid Rachlin ,
Hooman Majd ,
Roger Sedarat , and
Sholeh Wolpé .
[53]
Khakpour's second novel, The Last Illusion , was released on May 13, 2014.
[54] Much of the book was completed during writers' residencies at the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA),
Yaddo , and
Ucross , and at the
New Mexico home of her friend
Valerie Plame .
[55] Set in
New York during "the
Y2K to
9/11 era",
[56] the book is a coming-of-age tale about an
albino
feral boy , Zal, and is a retelling of a legend from the
Shahnameh , the
Persian Book of Kings.
[57] Khakpour has described the novel as "a love letter to New York."
[58] The Last Illusion was named one of
Flavorwire ’s “15 Most Anticipated Books of 2014,”
[59]
The Millions ’ “Most Anticipated” in its “The Great 2014 Book Review,”
[60] and the
Huffington Post ’s “30 Books You NEED to Read in 2014.”
[61] The Last Illusion has also been published in
Romanian by
Polirom .
[62]
In 2018, she published Sick , a "memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction, and the myth of full recovery."
[63] Khakpour's most-widely read book, Sick was named one of
Time 's 'Best Memoirs of 2018',
[64] and was recognized as a 'Best Book of 2018' by
Real Simple ,
Entropy ,
Mental Floss ,
Bitch Media ,
Autostraddle ,
The Paris Review ,
LitHub , and others.
[65]
The Week magazine selected the memoir as 'Book of the week' in June 2018.
[66]
[67]
[68] Sick was published in the
UK and
the Commonwealth by
Canongate in 2018.
[69] In 2022, the book was translated and published in a
Hungarian edition.
[70]
In 2019,
Amazon Original Stories published Parsnips in Love as an
e-book , which became a best-selling short story.
[71]
In 2020, Khakpour published her fourth book, an essay collection entitled Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity , as a Vintage Original from
Penguin Random House .
[72] The title is a deliberate reference to
Joan Didion 's
The White Album .
[73] Brown Album was named one of
Time 's "100 Must-Read Books of 2020".
[74]
Teaching
After completing her MA at
Johns Hopkins University in 2003, she was named an Eliott Coleman Fellow and taught creative writing as a lecturer at Hopkins.
[75]
Between 2008 and 2010, Khakpour was a
visiting professor at
Bucknell University .
[76] She subsequently moved to
Santa Fe ,
New Mexico , to become an
assistant professor of creative writing & literature at the
College of Santa Fe ,
[77] and later served on the faculty of
Fairfield University ’s low-residency
MFA program.
[78] From 2011 to 2012, she was the Picador Guest Professor of Literature at the
University of Leipzig in
Germany .
[79]
From 2014 to 2017, Khakpour taught at
Bard College as a
writer-in-residence .
[80] Khakpour has also been a visiting writer at
Wesleyan University (2014)
[81] and
Northwestern University (2017).
[82]
Khakpour has held
adjunct appointments at
Columbia University ,
Fordham University , and
Wesleyan University .
[83] She was guest faculty at the
Vermont College of Fine Arts and the
Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the
University of Southern Maine .
[84]
Influences
Khakpour credits
William Faulkner ,
Jamaica Kincaid ,
Forough Farrokhzad ,
[85]
Sadegh Hedayat ,
[86]
Vladimir Nabokov ,
James Salter ,
Herman Melville ,
[87]
Thomas Pynchon ,
Cormac McCarthy ,
[88]
Toni Morrison , and
James Baldwin
[89] as writers who have influenced her work.
She is close friends with the Chinese
avant-garde writer,
Can Xue , who she regards as a mentor,
[90] “one of my most treasured inspirations and models”,
[91] and "the greatest living writer on earth".
[92]
In 2015, after nominating Can Xue for the
Neustadt Prize as a member of the jury, Khakpour arranged for Can Xue and her husband Lu Yong to tour the United States.
[93] Khakpour wrote the introduction to the 2017 English translation of Can Xue’s novel
Frontier .
[94]
Awards and recognition
Khakpour is a recipient of the 2012
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Prose).
[95] Khakpour has also received fellowships from the
Sewanee Writers' Conference ,
Northwestern University , the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts , the
Ucross Foundation ,
Yaddo and
Djerassi .
[96] Her work has also been nominated for a
Pushcart Prize .
[97]
She was on the jury of the
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2018.
[98]
Personal life
Khakpour was diagnosed with late-stage
Lyme disease in 2012.
[99]
Khakpour identifies as
Muslim ,
[100] although she was raised agnostic by her family.
[101] She is openly queer and bisexual.
[102]
Khakpour currently lives in
Queens .
[103]
Works
Sons and Other Flammable Objects , New York: Grove Press, 2007.
ISBN
9780802118530 ,
OCLC
836838639
[104]
The Last Illusion , London: Bloomsbury, 2016.
ISBN
9781408858592 ,
OCLC
990147921
Sick: A Memoir , New York: Harper Collins, 2017.
ISBN
9780062428738 ,
OCLC
972254441
[105]
Frontier (by
Can Xue ), Open Letter, 2017. Introduction by Porochista Khakpour.
ISBN
978-1940953540
The Good Immigrant USA - 26 writers reflect on America , editors:
Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman, Dialogue Books, 2019.
ISBN
9780349700373 . The first essay is by Porochista Khakpour.
Parsnips in Love , Amazon Original Stories, 2019.
Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity , New York: Vintage, 2020.
ISBN
9780525564713
Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl (by Alison Rose),
Godine , 2023. Introduction by Porochista Khakpour.
ISBN
978-1-56792-775-7
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ISSN
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S2CID
240547754 .
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