ANITA AMIRREZVANI is a novelist, editor, and writing teacher who was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in San Francisco. Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, has appeared in 34 languages and was long listed for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction (now the Women’s Prize). Her second novel, Equal of the Sun, has appeared in nine languages. Anita co-edited Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers, the first anthology of its kind. She teaches in the MFA and undergraduate writing programs at the California College of the Arts. www.anitaamirrezvani.com.