Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters, and editor and senior strategist at Chicago Review of Books. Her writing 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, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She was named a 2021-2022 Emerging Critics Fellow by the National Book Critics Circle. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.