Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s critically acclaimed memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2009 by Dwight Garner of The New York Times.
His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, and numerous other publications.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish American mother and an Iranian father, and he was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Saïd now lives in New York City with his wife Karen Mainenti.
