Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the memoir
When Skateboards Will Be Free, which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of the
New York Times. His short stories and essays have appeared in
The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, Open City, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the recipient of a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.
