Dina Nayeri’s two previous novels have been published in over twenty countries and fourteen languages. Her nonfiction book Who Gets Believed? (2023) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and her nonfiction book The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Granta, and several literary journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (where she held the prestigious two-year Truman Capote Fellowship), Harvard Business School, and Princeton, she’s the recipient of an NEA literature grant and the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, was a fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris and the American Library in Paris, and was a finalist for the Rome Prize. Originally from Isfahan, Iran, she currently lives in Edinburgh, where she teaches at the University of St. Andrews.
