Parnaz Foroutan is the author of the novel Girl from the Garden (Ecco 2015) which received the PEN Emerging Voices Award and was named one of Booklist’s “Top 10 First Novels” of 2015 and the new memoir Home is a Stranger (Chicago Review Press 2020), which is about her journey back to Iran as a young woman, two decades after my family fled the rise of the Islamic Theocracy. Her essays have appeared on NBC Think, The Sun, Body Literature and other literary journals.