Marjan Kamali

This month Virginia Pye, our Special Projects Editor, interviewed Marjan Kamali about her writing process and how to tell stories of displacement and immigration.

Marjan, author of the forthcoming novel The Stationery Shop (June 2019) and Together Tea (2013), is originally from Iran, but has lived in seven countries. “The idea of home as a physical region,” Kamali says, “has always been at once a highly desirable and impossible concept for me…. I’m fascinated by the idea of home, why it matters, where it ends up being (for my characters it’s rarely a place). “

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Virginia Pye

Virginia Pye is the author of Shelf Life of Happiness, winner of the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, River of Dust, was an Indie Next Pick and a 2013 Finalist for the Virginia Literary Award. Her second novel, Dreams of the Red Phoenix was named a Best Book of 2015 by the Richmond-Times Dispatch. Virginia has taught writing at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, in high schools and most recently at Grub Street in Boston. To learn more, please visit her at: www.virginiapye.com

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