Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. She is the recipient of the 2021 Henfield Prize, the Columbia MFA’s highest honor in fiction, for work on her debut novel. Her translation of Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency, supported in part by a 2018 PEN/Heim grant, is forthcoming with Feminist Press this November.
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The Translator I Never Wanted to Be