Mohammad Tolouei, born in Rasht, Iran, in the throes of the 1979 revolution, is the award-winning writer of two novels, Fair Wind’s Prey (2007) and Anatomy of Depression (2014), and the short story collections I’m Not Janette (2011), Lessons by Father (2014; also published in Italian by Ponte 33), and Seven Domes (2018). Translations of his work have appeared in The Guardian, the Italian print magazine Internazionale, Asymptote Journal, The Persian Literature Review, The Columbia Journal, The Stranger’s Guide to Tehran, The Book of Tehran by Comma Press, and The Massachusetts Review.