Siavash Saadlou is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and literary translator whose memoir excerpt, “My Mom Told Me,” was selected as a Notable Essay for the 2023 Best American Essays series.
His short stories, essays, and translations have appeared in Ploughshares, New Letters, The Bellevue Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, and New England Review, among other journals.
He is the winner of the 2025 Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 McNally Robinson Booksellers Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2024 Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize, the 2023 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the 55th Cole Swensen Prize for Translation.
His poems have been anthologized in Woman, Life, Freedom (Guernica Editions) and Odes to Our Undoing: Writers Reflecting on Crisis (RiskPress). His writing has received support from Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference.