Persis Karim holds the Neda Nobari Chair and is the Director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University. She is also a professor of Comparative and World Literature. She has written extensively about literature and culture of the Iranian diaspora and has edited three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers, Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora, and A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian Americans. You can learn more at: persiskarim.com.