Maryam Ivette Parhizkar

Maryam Ivette Parhizkar grew up in a Salvadoran and Iranian family in southwest Houston. Her chapbooks include Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2019), As for the future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014). A graduate student worker and Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, she is a CantoMundo fellow and member of the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative.