Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award, and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, selected as one of the ten best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of The New York Times.