Jul 20, 2020
Ballet Helped Me Reclaim My Identity as a Queer Iranian
Imagination could only take me so far. I was ready to dance—and this time my mom couldn’t say no.
Arya Roshanian
Arya Roshanian (he/him/his) is an Iranian American writer based in Brooklyn. His fiction appears in Jellyfish Review, and his reporting, essays, and criticism are published in BOMB, Variety, Guernica, Vox, Catapult, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of University of Southern California, where he was an editor at the Daily Trojan. He is currently Senior Fiction Co-Editor at Action, Spectacle.
