Ali Hosseini

ALI HOSSEINI is an Iranian American author who writes in Persian and English. He has published two novels in English, The Lemon Grove (2012) and The Place of Stones (2017), the latter a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review , Antioch Review , and Guernica , among others. He came to the United States as a college student and worked as a farm laborer, construction worker, security guard, and later as an IT specialist. He lives in the Boston...See more

ALI HOSSEINI is an Iranian American author who writes in Persian and English. He has published two novels in English, The Lemon Grove (2012) and The Place of Stones (2017), the latter a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review , Antioch Review , and Guernica , among others. He came to the United States as a college student and worked as a farm laborer, construction worker, security guard, and later as an IT specialist. He lives in the Boston area. See less