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Presented in affiliation with the Inspired Writers Series hosted by MFA Program’s Phil Klay

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author, most recently, of the story collection, American Estrangement, a finalist for The L.A. Times Book Prize. His memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the 10 best books of the year by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, and his story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize.