Ali Gharavi

Ali Gharavi was born in Tehran and moved to the United States in the early 1980s, where he earned advanced engineering degrees. He spent the 1990s as a systems consultant before turning to human rights work in 2000. His fiction, including short stories in the New Statesman and Expressen, was selected for the Loft Literary Center's mentorship series in 2006. He is working on a first novel.