Siavash Saadlou

Siavash Saadlou is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and literary translator whose short stories, essays, and works of translation have appeared in the American Literary Review, Southeast Review, Massachusetts Review, and New England Review, among other journals. His writing has received support from Vermont Studio Center, and he is the winner of the 2024 McNally Robinson Booksellers Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2024 Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2023 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the fifty-fifth Cole Swensen Prize for Translation. (Updated 7/2025)