Siamak Vossoughi is an Iranian-American writer whose publications include The Friend Seekers (2026), A Sense of the Whole (2019) which was selected by Victor LaValle for the Orison Fiction Prize and Better Than War (2015), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award. He won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2025) and the Pithead Chapel Larry Brown Short Story Award (2023) and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (2022). His writing has appeared in over fifty journals and literary magazines including The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus,Columbia Journal, and Tupelo Quarterly to name a few. He lives in Seattle.