Zara Houshmand is an Iranian American writer whose work bridges cultural divides and includes poetry, theatre, new media arts, memoir, and literary translation. Her installation Beyond Manzanar (with Tamiko Thiel) pioneered the use of virtual reality as an art form. She worked with the Mind & Life Institute for two decades as the editor of books on the Dalai Lama’s dialogues with Western science. Her translations include plays by Bijan Mofid, awarded the first National Theatre Translation Fund grant, and Moon and Sun: A Selection of Rumi’s Rubaiyat. Collaborations include A Mirror Garden with Monir Farmanfarmaian, and Running Toward Mystery with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi. Email: zh [at] mindspring.com
Website: http://zarahoushmand.com
by Zara Houshmand Stefany Anne Golberg’s My Morningless Mornings is one of the most unusual books I’ve ever encountered. It’s very quietly ambitious, framing its aspirations without obvious fanfare, and it accomplishes them with rare elegance and efficiency. Ostensibly the book is a memoir, but just barely. Its narrative scaffolding consists of memories from a…