Mandana Chaffa

Mandana Chaffa is a writer, editor and critic whose work has appeared in a variety of publications and venues. She is founder and editor of Nowruz Journal and an editor-at-large at Chicago Review of Books. She serves on the boards of Brooklyn Poets, where she is Treasurer; the National Book Critics Circle where she is vice president of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize and co-vice president of Membership; and is also the president of the board of The Flow Chart Foundation. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.