“Ferociously intelligent”
—New York Times Book Review

“A Stunning psychological thriller”
—Los Angeles Times

"A love story of the most fevered, brutal order.”
—Vulture

It Is What It Is

Originally published by Electric Literature, Oloomi's story was selected by Min Jin Lee and Heidi Pitlor for The Best American Short Stories 2023. 

A Harvard radcliffe Fellow

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow

Whose Time Are We Speaking In?

Oloomi's seminal craft essay on the works of Yiyun Li, James Baldwin, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha--writers whose complex treatment of time and intimacy offered her a dwelling place after losing her brother to suicide. 

James Baldwin in Turkey

Written in celebration of Sedat Pakay's eleven minute documentary film of Baldwin filmed in Istanbul in May 1970, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.