The book, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, was born out of a writing workshop on Iranian identity taught by Persis Karim and Anita Amirrezvani in 2015 in Berkeley, CA. We both came to the workshop with deeply persona..
Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery
Katherine Whitney was drawn into the Iranian diaspora by marriage. “Iranian Revelations,” her first essay about her experience with the diaspora, was published in the anthology Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves (HarperCollins 2005). She graduated from Duke University and received a MA in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University. She lives in Berkeley, CA.
Leila Emery, originally from New England and currently residing in the South, is a poet and editor whose work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Parentheses Journal, Matter, and Lines+Stars. Her poem “How Do You Say That in Farsi?” was nominated for Sundress Publication’s 2019 Best of the Net Anthology. Leila holds a degree in Comparative Literature from Smith College and a MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University.
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