Margaret Kahn is the author of Children of the Jinn, In Search of the Kurds and Their Country and the entry on Kurds in The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Her short fiction has appeared in Ararat, Iowa Woman, Kalliope, Crab Orchard Review, and the Sunday magazine section of the San Jose Mercury News. She lives in northern California where she is working on a novel about American expatriates living in Egypt in the 1970's.