Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (; ; born 1968) is an American memoirist, playwright and fiction writer living in New York City. He won a 2010 Whiting Award for his memoir, ''When Skateboards Will Be Free''. He is the author of two story collections, ''American Estrangement'' (2021) and ''Brief Encounters With the Enemy,'' which was short-listed for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction. He serves on the board of directors for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Provided by Wikipedia