Dalia Sofer was born in Tehran, Iran, and came to the United States at the age of ten.
She received a B.A. in French Literature and Creative Writing from New York University and an MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the 2007 Sirenland Fellowship, the 2008 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, and the 2009 Sami Rohr Choice Award. Her novel, The Septembers of Shiraz, was selected as a 2007 New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award in 2008, and has been translated and published in sixteen countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Iceland, Israel, and Brazil. She has published essays in various anthologies, and has been a contributor to NPR, The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Newsday, Poets & Writers, and the Academy of American Poets’ National Poetry Almanac. She has been a resident at Yaddo and at the Santa Maddalena Retreat for Writers in Donnini, Italy. She lives in New York City.
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