Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, for which he received a 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award. It was selected as one of the ten best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of The New York Times.
His short stories and personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, among other publications.
His short story collection will published next year by The Dial Press.
Saïd lives in New York City with his wife Karen Mainenti.
