Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction and long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award, and the novel Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project). She is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35 Award." She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame and the founder of the initiative Literatures of Annihilation, Exile & Resistance.