Massud Alemi, writer, novelist

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Massud Alemi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1959, and immigrated to the United States for higher education in 1977. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 caught him by surprise, as it did many others. He studied history and researched the roots of the upheaval in the country of his birth, and within him the urge to write grew. Alemi worked as a cook, cab-driver, graphic designer, and computer network engineer to make ends meet. Meanwhile he graduated from George Mason University in Virginia, and continued to write in both English and Persian. His writings have appeared in various in-print and online publications. Interruptions is his first novel in English.

Read Alemi’s autobiographical essay here.

Alemi lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and is at work on his next project.

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