About

Portrait of Ali Araghi

Photo by Vahid Khalajzadeh

Ali Araghi is an Iranian writer and translator. He was born in Tehran, but moved to South Bend, Indiana to earn his MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Alongside his second novel, Araghi is now working on Persian, Translated, a database of Persian literature translated into English. He is the founding editor of the online literary journal, PARAGRAPHITI. He teaches fiction at Penn State University.