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Bio

Marjan Kamali is the award-winning author of The Stationery Shop (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster), a national and international bestseller, and Together Tea (EccoBooks/HarperCollins), a Massachusetts Book Award finalist. She is a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.

Marjan’s novels are published in translation in more than 25 languages (19 languages for The Stationery Shop and 9 languages for Together Tea). Her essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Literary Hub, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Marjan holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from New York University. Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, she spent her childhood in Turkey, Iran, Germany, Kenya, and the U.S.  Marjan is currently a Scholar in Residence at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and lives in the Boston area with her family.

Listen to an interview with the National Endowment of the Arts about Marjan’s life and work here: https://www.arts.gov/stories/podcast/marjan-kamali

For more information on Marjan, check out her bio at the Boston Athenæum here.