Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak has selected and ably translated the poems of Mandana Zandian's poems. The translation includes poems which have never been published in the original.
Mandana Zandian is an Iranian-American poet, journal-ist, and physician. Born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1972, Mandana Zandian went through her education in her homeland, graduating from Shahid Beheshti Universitys School of Medicine in 1997. Over the past seven years or so, she has produced two books primarily based on conversations and conducted numerous in-depth interviews with various luminaries among Iranians in exile. In more recent years, through the art of radio interviews, she has further extended her reach into the life and work of Iranian and Persian-speaking poets like herself all over the world, as well as in her home country of Iran.