Shohreh Laici is an Iranian essayist and translator based in the United States, currently serving as a Scholar in Exile at the University of Rochester in New York. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including World Literature Today, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry Daily. Her forthcoming memoir, Greetings from Tehran, details her journey from Iran to the United States. This journey is also chronicled in the forthcoming documentary feature My Room in Tehran Was Called America, directed by Pirooz Kalayeh, for which Laici serves as a creative producer.