Laleh Khadivi
Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty • Academic Director
lkhadivi@usfca.edu
(415) 422-6066
Biography
Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy which includes The Age of Orphans (2009), The Walking (2013), and A Good Country (2017).
Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, VQR, and The Sun.
She has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2000 and her films have been screened in festivals and on various cable networks.
- Education
- MFA Mills College
- Selected Publications
Khadivi, L. (2017). A Good Country. New York: Bloomsbury USA
Khadivi, L. (2013). The Walking. New York: Bloomsbury USA
Khadivi, L. (2009). The Age of Orphans. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Awards & Distinctions
National Endowment for the Arts Award
Barnes and Noble Discover New Writer Award
Whiting Award
Pushcart Prize
Emory Fiction Fellowship
Wisconsin Fiction Fellowship