Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh

Photo courtesy of Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh

Artist Residency in Writing, 2025

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh was born in Iran, grew up in California, and now lives in New York. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation theorizes the racialization of premodern Islamophobia. She is a founding board member of Race Before Race. She currently works as a Program Manager at an arts organization, Community-Word Project. Her creative nonfiction has previously appeared in Zyzzva, Bostan Accent, Wellcome Collection, Literature Mama, and the anthology My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora. She is slowly getting acquainted with the Atlantic Ocean and the coastal trails of the East Coast after having been raised by the trails along the Pacific Coast of California.

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