Sara Khalili () is a journalist, editor, and literary translator based in New York.

Publications

Khalili's translations of contemporary Iranian literature include: *

Siavash Kasrai Siavash Kasrai (February 25, 1927 – February 8, 1996; ) was an Iranian poet, literary critic and novelist. He is well-known for his epic poem of Arash the Archer written in the late 1950s. An active supporter of the Communist Tudeh Party o ...

, ''As Red as Fire, Tasting of Smoke, Collected Poems of Siavash Kasrai'' (2007) * Fereydoun Moshiri, ''Lucky Those Half-Open Buds, Collected Poems of Fereydoun Moshiri'' (2007) *

Shahriar Mandanipour Shahriar Mandanipour (; also ''Shahriar Mondanipour'' (born February 15, 1957) is an Iranian writer, journalist and literary theorist. Mandanipour was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Sciences at t ...

, ''Censoring an Iranian Love Story'' (2009) *

Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; ; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist, and activist. Renowned for her mastery of the ghazal, a traditional poetic for ...

, ''My Country, I Shall Build You Again, Collected Poems of Simin Behbahani'' (2009) *

Parinoush Saniee Parinoush Saniee () is an Iranian novelist. Her novel ''The Book of Fate'' has been translated into 26 languages and the English translation by Sara Khalili was listed by ''World Literature Today'' as one of the "75 notable translations of 2013". ...

, ''The Book of Fate'' (2013) *

Shahrnush Parsipur Shahrnush Parsipur (; born 17 February 1946) is an Iranian-born writer and translator. Biography Shahrnush Parsipur was born on 17 February 1946; she was born and raised in Tehran. Parsipur received her B.A. degree in 1973 in sociology from T ...

, ''Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir'' (2013) * Goli Taraghi, ''The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons: Selected Stories'' (2013) * Yaghoub Yadali, ''Rituals of Restlessness'' (2016) *

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad (; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic,* feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32. Ear ...

, ''The Sorrow of Solitude, Collected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad'' *

, ''Moon Brow'' (2018) *Hadi Mohammadi, Nooshin Safakhoo (illus.), ''In the Meadow of Fantasies'' (2021

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, ''Season of Purgatory'' ( 2022) *Siamak Herawi, ''Tali Girls'' (2023) Her short story translations have appeared in ''

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Michigan Quarterly Review The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and ...

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