Sepideh Zamani

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Sepideh Zamani (born in northern Iran) graduated from law school in 1999 and moved to the United States a year later. Her novels, short stories, essays, and poetry focus on immigration, gender inequality, and the lives of ethnic and religious minorities under cultural cleansing.

  • Cairo’s Al-Rifa’i Mosque

    Migratory Violets

    January 2023
    Sepideh Zamani
    Cairo Al-Rifa'i Mosque | Photo by Mohammed Moussa | CC BY-SA 3.0 An Iranian woman living in the US seeks to understand the meaning of home on a journey to Egypt to visit the burial place of Moham…
  • The empty seats of a soccer stadium as soon while looking down toward the field (which is not in the panel)

    The Wig

    Summer 2019
    Sepideh Zamani
    Photo: Philipp Bock/Flickr Banned from entering soccer stadiums since Iran’s 1979 revolution, the young women in this story hatch a risky plan to get inside the stadium on game day.  She had…