Amir Ahmadi Arian

Amir Ahmadi Arian is an Iranian-American writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric at Binghamton University (College of Arts and Sciences). He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Queensland, Australia, an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, and a BSc in Metallurgy Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran.

His research and teaching focus on creative writing, world literature, postcolonial novels, and Persian poetry. He has published two novels, a story collection, and a nonfiction book in Persian, and translated works by E.L. Doctorow, Paul Auster, P.D. James, and Cormac McCarthy into Persian. His English-language publications include fiction in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and other prestigious venues.

His debut English novel Then the Fish Swallowed Him (HarperVia/HarperCollins, 2020) received critical acclaim from The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews for its political themes and interior portrayal of oppression.