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PERSIS M. KARIM was born in the United States to an Iranian father and a French mother.She is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at San Jose State University in California and coeditor of A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian Americans. H ALYOUNG is the poet laureate of California.Young has a long list of publications ranging from novels and poetry collections to musical memoirs and screenplays.He is working on a new novel called A Piece of Cake, a sequel to his Sitting Pretty. ...

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