Mahru Elahi

Mahru Elahi is an Iranian American femme. They have received support from Community of Writers, Lambda Literary, Hedgebrook, Tin House, VONA and Antioch University Los Angeles, and are compiling a book-length manuscript—THE FUEL OF NATIONS: Essays on Girlhood in Amrika—that unspools their coming of age in the 1970s and 80s as an American-born Iranian who was emotionally dismembered by global conflict and its localized impacts on the family: particularly in the aftermath of the 1973 Oil Embargo, and the 1979 storming of the American Embassy in Tehran. Mahru urges you to act against genocide, against starvation, and towards a love that cannot be acknowledged by empire.