Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Sick (HarperPerennial, 2017), and the novels The Last Illusion (2014) and Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007). Her writing has appeared in Bookforum, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, Spin, Elle, and many others. She is Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

September 2018
Porochista Khakpour

New York. Harper Perennial. 2018. 272 pages. In her new memoir, author Porochista Khakpour delves into her own history of illness and addiction to craft a harrowing tale of sickness in all its forms a...
What to Read Now: “Unlikely Works of Iranian Origin,” by Porochista Khakpour

November 2015
Porochista Khakpour

In the past decade, especially, much has been written about Iranian memoirs and particularly the nonfiction of Iranian females of the diaspora. Within that, many Iranian American fiction writers (such...