Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI is the author of the novels <em>Savage Tongues</em>, <em>Call Me Zebra,</em> and <em>Fra Keeler </em><em>and</em> the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the winner of a 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award, a John Gardner Award, and a 2015 Whiting Award, as well as the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and residency fellowships from MacDowell and Ledig House. Her work has appeared in the <em>New York Times</em>, the<em> Paris Review</em>, <em>Guernica</em>, <em>Granta</em>, <em>Bomb</em>, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago and is the founder of Literatures of Annihilation, Exile and Resistance, a lecture series on the global Middle East that focuses on literature shaped by colonialism, military domination, and state-sanctioned violence.<BR />