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Persis Maryam Karim (born 1962) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and educator. She serves as the Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at
San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...
(SFSU) since 2017. Her work focuses on Iranians living outside of Iran, specifically
Iranian Americans Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busine ...
, and their complicated histories and identities which is often presented through storytelling.


Biography

Persis Maryam Karim was born in 1962 in
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,
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. Her father was an Iranian, born in Paris; her mother was French and had immigrated from
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,
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. She was the youngest child in her family (with six siblings and two step-siblings), and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Karim attended the
University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...
(BA 1985), and
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(PhD 1998,
comparative literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...
). She had studied under poet
Al Young Albert James Young (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books includ ...
. Karim is known for editing anthologies and sharing the stories of Iranian-Americans, including ''A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans'' (1999) and ''Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers'' (2013). From 1999 until 2017, Karim worked at
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, where she was a co-director of its Persian Studies Program.


Publications

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Contributions

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See also

* List of Iranian women writers


References


External links


Profile
at San Francisco State University
Profile
at San Jose State University {{DEFAULTSORT:Karim, Persis 1962 births Living people People from Walnut Creek, California University of California, Santa Cruz alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni Poets from California American editors American Iranologists American people of French descent American writers of Iranian descent 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets San Francisco State University faculty San Jose State University faculty 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women editors Iranian diaspora studies scholars Comparative literature academics