Solmaz Sharif, Author at Witness

Solmaz Sharif

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from UC Berkeley and New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in jubilat, DIAGRAM, and PBS’s Frontline: Tehran Bureau. She is managing director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

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By Solmaz Sharif

Poetry•Blurring Borders – Vol. XXIV No. 1 (Spring 2011)

…Let this be the Body through which the War has passed. —Frank Bidart somewhere I did not learn mow down or mop up • somewhere I wouldn’t hear your father must come with me or I must fingerprint your grandmother can you translate please • the FBI has my cousins’ computers • my father says… [Read More]