Siamak Vossoughi was born in Tehran and grew up in London, Orange County, and Seattle. He lives in San Francisco, where he writes and works as a tutor. Some of his writing has appeared in Faultline, Fourteen Hills, River and Sound Review, Prick of the Spindle, and the Massachusetts Review. He is the recipient of the 2013 Very Short Fiction Award from Glimmer Train. He is currently at work on a novel.
There was no getting around the fact that a writer had to know who he was in relation to guns. He had to pick them up or not pick them up, but if he was going to not pick them…
The first man to make me feel like I could groove in America was Magic Johnson. Not just be here, not just make it through a school day without crying, but groove: exist with such assurance that I could look…
