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.