Saïd Sayrafiezadeh was born in Brooklyn in 1968 to an Iranian father and a Jewish-American mother. He was raised in Pittsburgh.
When Skateboards Will Be Free, his memoir about growing up communist, will be published by Dial Press in March 2009.
His personal essays and short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Columbia Journal of Literature and Art, Open City, and elsewhere.
New York is Bleeding, a historical play about the Civil War draft riots, was commissioned by New York Theatre Workshop and developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab. Other plays include Autobiography of a Terrorist (Public Theater, New Works Now); Long Dream in Summer (Actors Theatre of Louisville); All Fall Away (Theatre 503, London).
He is the recipient of a number of writing fellowships in both drama and prose, including Sirenland (2008), New York Foundation for the Arts (2006 and 1996), and New York Theatre Workshop (2001 and 1997).
Saïd lives in New York City.
