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I am a writer living in Los Angeles. I love Shake Shack.

Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.

Contributing editor @thehairpin / music @allthingsgo / mid-MFA @umichwriters / Rosie Perez in the opening of Do The Right Thing

Kaveh Akbar is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University.

Polling/analytics. Digital ex. Co-Founder @EchelonInsights.

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