The Paris Review
The Paris Review runs Dina’s adolescent diaries and accompanying essay in “Diaries”
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail (Canada) runs an op-ed by Dina about secularism in Iran
The Guardian Long Read
The Guardian Long Read publishes “Foreign Mothers, Foreign Tongues” by Dina Nayeri, about the gulf between Asian mothers and their western daughters
Time Magazine
Time Magazine runs an adapted excerpt about the police interrogation of Michael Ledford from Who Gets Believed
PEN UK Transmissions
PEN UK Transmissions runs Dina’s response to new UK migrant bill
The Guardian Long Read (audio)
Dina’s Guardian Long Read (Foreign Mothers) Audio Version read by Dina Nayeri
Literary Hub
LitHub excerpts Who Gets Believed
Analyst News
Analyst News excerpts Who Gets Believed
New York Magazine
Dina reports for New York Magazine about the groundbreaking work for two Iranian researchers who claim that Iran is secular
Vogue UK
Read Dina’s piece on displacement (an excerpt of the afterward for The Waiting Place) in Vogue UK
The Guardian
Read Dina’s review of Miriam Toews’s Fight Night in The Guardian
Paines Plough Women’s Prize in Playwriting
Dina’s first play Yellow Teeth (a version of which was excerpted by The Old Vic as part of their One Voice series) was shortlisted for the Paines Plough Women’s Prize
Longreads Outstanding Stories 2020
Dina’s short story “The Pinch” is among Longreads 10 outstanding short stories for 2020
Best American Short Stories 2021
Dina’s short story “Bad Faith” was a Best American Short Stories 2021 notable
The New York Times
Read Dina’s short story in The New York Times Decameron Project anthology (now a book!)
The Gifts of Reading
Read Dina’s essay in Robert McFarlane’s The Gifts of Reading anthology for Room to Read
The Stranger’s Guide Tehran
Read Dina’s essay in The Stranger’s Guide Tehran
Anonymous Sex
Read Dina’s short story in the anthology Anonymous Sex (but you won’t know which she wrote!)
The Lonely Stories
Read Dina’s essay in the The Lonely Stories anthology
Refugee Tales IV
Read Dina’s account of Suleyman’s story in the Refugee Tales IV anthology
The New York Times Book Review
Read Dina’s review of Rabih Alameddine’s novel The Wrong End of the Telescope in The New York Times Book Review
Old Vic Theatre
Watch Dina’s monologue produced by the Old Vic Theatre’s One Voice series (HOME?) curated by Noma Dumezweni and adapted from Dina’s first play Yellow Teeth
English Touring Theatre
Listen to Dina’s short play “We Still Have Our Feet” produced by The English Touring Theatre and featured on the “Wanderlust” episode of That Podcast hosted by Nish Kumar
Longreads
Dina’s short story “The Pinch” is among The Long Read’s 10 outstanding short stories 2020
Philanthropy Age
Read an excerpt of The Ungrateful Refugee on Philanthropy Age
The Guardian
Listen to Dina’s viral 2017 essay “The Ungrateful Refugee” read by Lara Sawalha on The Guardian Long Read podcast
The Kenyon Review
Read Dina’s short story “Bad Faith” in the Sept/Oct 2020 issue of The Kenyon Review
The New York Times Magazine
Read Dina’s short story “The Cellar” in The New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project
The Washington Post
Read Dina’s essay in The Washington Post on sheltering pleasures in wartime
The New York Times Book Review
Read Dina’s Review of Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Aryan in The New York Times Book Review
The Financial Times
Read Dina’s piece “How to Be Believed” in The Financial Times
Los Angeles Times
Read Dina’s essay on refugees and shame (first published in The Los Angeles Times) in Repubblica (Italy)
The Guardian
Read Dina’s recommendations for novels on immigration in The Guardian
The Believer
Read Dina’s schema “How to woo a Persian with song” in The Believer (illustrated by Kristen Radtke)
The New York Times
Read Dina’s short story “The Pinch” recommended in The New York Times cooking
The Guardian
Read Dina’s review of Rodaan Al Galidi’s Two Blankets Three Sheets in The Guardian
The Guardian
Dina’s piece on how a Korean sport helped an Iranian girl feel more American is chosen for The best of the Guardian Long Read in 2019
Literary Hub
Read Dina’s essay “The art of surviving a move to New York” in Literary Hub
The Guardian
Read Dina’s piece on refugee writing in The Guardian’s “Further Reading” column
Time
Read Dina’s essay “Waiting is a boot on your neck” in Time
Literary Hub
Read an excerpt of The Ungrateful Refugee in Literary Hub
The New York Times Book Review
Read Dina’s review of Carolina De Robertis’s Cantoras in The New York Times
Longreads
Read Dina’s essay in The Long Read “When your social worker thinks you’re Ungrateful”
The New York Times T-Magazine
Read Dina’s flash fiction “A Migration” for T-Magazine
Slate
Read Dina’s article Why They Fear Ilhan Omar in Slate
The Guardian Long Read
Listen to Dina read her taekwondo story from Guardian Long Read on a podcast! ‘I wouldn’t be the refugee, I’d be the girl who kicked ass’
The Guardian
Dina’s Guardian Long Read “Kick First, Kick Hard, Kick Fast, Kick Last” (about how a Korean sport made an Iranian girl feel more American) has been re-issued in Guardian Weekly with illustrations!
The Los Angeles Times
Read Dina’s essay “For a refugee, the sharpest sting is everyday shame” in The Los Angeles Times
Grazia
Read Dina’s essay “Things you only know if you grew up a refugee” in Grazia UK
The Guardian
Read Dina’s Long Read “Kick First, Kick Hard, Kick Fast, Kick Last” in The Guardian
Granta
Read an excerpt of Dina’s narrative nonfiction book The Ungrateful Refugee in Granta
The Guardian
Read Dina’s review of “The Farm” by Joanna Ramos for The Guardian
The New York Times Book Review
Read Dina’s review of Jamil Jan Kochai’s 99 Nights in Logar and Alessandro D’Avenia’s What Hell is Not in The New York Times Book Review
The Displaced
Dina’s essay The Ungrateful Refugee has been anthologized in Viet Nguyen’s The Displaced.
The Guardian
Read Dina’s review of Mohammad Hanif’s Red Birds in The Guardian.
The Atlantic
Read Kristen Radtke’s beautiful tribute to loneliness in The Atlantic, featuring a drawing and story of one of Dina’s loneliest moments.
The Guardian
Read Dina’s essay “A Place Called Kindness” for Guardian Weekend about her visit to two refugee camps in Greece.
Lit Hub
Read Dina’s essay “A Literal Hell Constructed for Children” on Lit Hub (selected as Staff Pick).
NYPL—SimplyE Collections
Read “A Ride out of Phrao” (Dina’s 2015 O. Henry Prize Story) on NYPL’s SimplyE Collections on the NYC subway!
Best American Short Stories
Dina’s short story “A Big True” published in the summer 2017 issue of The Southern Review was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 by Roxane Gay.
Alaska Quarterly Review
Read Dina Nayeri’s short story “The Woman in Bed Fifteen” in the Winter-Spring 2018 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review.
The New York Times Book Review
Read Dina’s review of Jasmin Darznik’s novel Song of a Captive Bird in The New York Times Book Review.
The Guardian
Read Dina’s review of David Chariandy’s novel Brother in The Guardian Books.
Grazia
Read Dina Nayeri’s article Non Ci Accontenteremo di Briciole di Liberta (about the December 2017 hijab
protests in Iran) in Grazia Magazine.
The Yale Review
Read Dina Nayeri’s short story “The Pinch” in the Winter 2018 issue of The Yale Review
ABRAMS PRESS
Dina’s essay “The Ungrateful Refugee” to be published in The Displaced, a collection of refugee essays edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen
The New Republic
Dina Nayeri writes the introduction for Simone Tramonte’s photo essay, “Small Acts of Subversion” in The New Republic.
The Guardian
The Ungrateful Refugee featured in The Guardian’s The best of the Long Read in 2017.
Conjunctions
Read Dina Nayeri’s short story, “Pedalo” in the Fall 2017 issue of Conjunctions titled “Being Bodies”.
The Guardian
Read Dina Nayeri’s article Yearning for the end of the world in The Guardian.
Refinery 29
Read Dina Nayeri’s article Can An Author Write About Their Parents? in Refinery 29.
The Center for Fiction
Read Dina Nayeri’s article
The Book That Made Me a Reader: Dina Nayeri on Behrangi, Golding, and Ishiguro
on The Center for Fiction.
Electric LITERATURE
Read an Excerpt from Refuge
A Story About What A Thrice-Divorced Man Took for Granted on Electric Lit.
Read it Forward
Read Dina Nayeri’s essay On Lying and Auto-Fiction on Read it Forward.
Guernica
Read an excerpt from Refuge in Guernica.
The Southern Review
Read Dina Nayeri’s short story A Big True in The Southern Review.
Los Angeles Times
Read Dina Nayeri’s article
The indoctrination of a young girl for The Los Angeles Times.
The New York Times
Read Dina Nayeri’s review of
A Good Country for The New York Times.
The New Yorker
Read Dina Nayeri’s article
My Father in Four Visits Over Thirty Years in The New Yorker.
The Guardian
Read Dina Nayeri’s article “I made a statistical game out of dating: could I crack the formula for love?”, in The Guardian.
The Guardian
Read Dina Nayeri’s article The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ in The Guardian.
Electric Literature
Read Dina Nayeri’s article How Love Ends: Scenes from a Refugee Hotel in Electric Literature.
The New York Times
Read Dina Nayeri’s article After London Attack, Living Between Cultures in the The New York Times.
Electric Literature
Read Dina Nayeri’s story “A Faded Sense” included in Electric Literature’s picks for The Five Stages of Grief.
New York Magazine
Read Dina Nayeri’s article An ugly snow day at Harvard Business School in New York Magazine.
The New York Times Magazine
Read Dina Nayeri’s article My Divorce, My Father, My Mistake in The New York Times Magazine.
Epoch Magazine
Dina’s essay “Scenes from a Refugee Hotel” was published in Epoch Magazine.
Marie Claire
Read Dina’s article “The Naked Truth: My Total Vulnerability Experiment” in Marie Claire.
Travel and Leisure
Read Dina’s article “Red Light, Green Light: Amsterdam’s Changing Red Light District” in Travel and Leisure.
The O. Henry Prize Stories
Dina’s short story “A Ride out of Phrao” chosen for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
Vice
Read Dina Nayeri’s article The Complicated Beauty of the Persian Nose in Vice Magazine.
Electric Literature
Read Dina Nayeri’s short story A Faded Sense on Electric Literature (Recommended Reading).
Wall Street Journal
Read Dina Nayeri on Keeping Up with Her Peace Corps Mom for the Wall Street Journal.
Los Angeles Review of Books
Read Dina Nayeri’s review of The Pomegranate Lady and her Sons for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Alaska Quarterly Review
Dina Nayeri’s “A Ride out of Phrao” is the lead short story in the
Fall & Winter 2013 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review.
Vice
Read Dina Nayeri’s article The Most Intimate Sense: Notes from a Fragrant Book Party on Vice.
The Daily Beast
Read Dina Nayeri’s article An Exile Searching for Home on The Daily Beast.
Brooklyn Quarterly / Salon
Read Dina Nayeri’s piece on Persian idioms in The Brooklyn Quarterly and Salon.com.
Penguin Blog
Read Afternoons in the Stacks, by Dina Nayeri on the Penguin Blog.
Marie Claire
Read Dina Nayeri’s article Back in the Game on Marie Claire.
Guernica/PEN
Read Dina Nayeri’s flash fiction piece, Um Girassol da Cor do Seu Cabelo, in Guernica/PEN.
Best American Non-required Reading
Dina Nayeri’s short story Arya published in Alaska Quarterly Review was chosen as a notable story for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013.
The Best American Short Stories
The excerpt of A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea published in The Southern Review was chosen as a notable story for The Best American Short Stories 2013.
Triquarterly
Story “Akh Joon” in the Winter 2013 issue of Triquarterly
Michigan Quarterly Review
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Excerpt in the Winter 2012 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.
The Southern Review
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea Excerpt in the Spring 2012 issue of The Southern Review.
Alaska Quarterly Review
Short story “Arya” in the Fall 2012 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review.
Granta New Voices: Dina Nayeri
Read Dina’s excerpt from a work in progress, published in Granta New Voices.