Laleh Khadivi is the author of three novels, The Age of Orphans, The Walking and A Good Country, otherwise known as the Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, NEA grant for the arts and the Stanford Stein fellowship. She lives in Oakland, California and is chair of the University of San Francisco MFA program in writing.