AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi will be the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow in Fiction at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, where she will be working on her fourth novel. Her story, "It Is What It Is," originally published by Electric Literature was selected for the Best American Short Stories 2023, forthcoming in October In the Fall of 2022, she interviewed author Idra Novey for BOMB Magazine In the spring of 2023, The Sewanee Review published her craft essay, "Whose Time Are We Speaking In?" and The Believer's "Department of Objects" published her story, "Rumi." She continued to direct Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance, an international initiative that hosts writers who work at the crossroads of literature and human rights. In May, she was promoted to Full Professor and appointed as the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor at Notre Dame. In June, her essay "James Baldwin in Turkey" appeared in The Yale Review