Raha Namy

A writer and literary Persian<>English translator/editor, Raha Namy is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing, fiction, at the University of Denver. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, World Literature Today, Quarterly Conversation, Barcelona Review, Short Fiction Magazine, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere.

  • Namy Sculpture

    Transmutations of / by Language

    March 2015
    Raha Namy
    Raha Namy contemplates what it means to live and write in the border spaces of translation, wandering between the motherland and the adopted land, traveling to and fro between the mother tongue an…

  • Follow the News

    August 28, 2013 Raha Namy
    In 2007 Persian English translator and writer Raha Namy set off on a bicycle ride through Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, coming to a stop at the Occupied Territories of the West Bank (Israel). She an…