Saïdeh Pakravan is Iranian-born, French-educated, and lives in the United States. Her novel Azadi, Protest in the Streets of Tehran, about the crackdown after the rigged Iranian elections of June 2009, has just been published. She writes essays, fiction, and poetry in both French and English. For nine years, she was editor-in-chief of a cross-cultural quarterly in English for the Iranian-American community in the United States, Chanteh. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and in a number of publications including the Potomac Review, the Sonora Review, Poet Lore, Calyx, Gargoyle, the Baltimore Review, The Southern California Review, etc., in the U.K. in the London Magazine. She is the author of The Arrest of Hoveyda: Stories of the Iranian Revolution and also editor for foreign literature on the French site ecrits-vains and film critic for screencomment.com. Her awards include the F. Scott Fitgerald award for fiction, a Pushcart Prize nomination and a Notable Essay. She teaches both writing and editing and is the author of a style manual.