Siavash Saadlou is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and literary translator whose memoir excerpt, “My Mom Told Me,” was selected as a Notable Essay in the 2023 Best American Essays series. His short stories, essays, and works of translation have appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, and American Literary Review, among other journals. 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 55th Cole Swensen Prize for Translation. He was also a 2024 National Magazine Award finalist in Canada and one of the two runners-up in the 2025 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. His writing has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center.
