"Love alone can make a human abandon his heart and home," writes Moniro Ravanipour — an author with some experience of having to leave home for love. Love of prose, specifically, as Ravanipour was forced to leave her home country of Iran 19 years ago to escape persecution for her writing.

But her story doesn't end there. On January 8, 2020, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a flight en route from Tehran to Kyiv. There were no survivors. Family members of those lost in the tragedy turned to Ravanipour for help, hoping she could teach them to write memoirs of their loved ones. The result was the book I Will Call You Once I Arrive in Kyiv.

This is a conversation with Ravanipour about said book, with fellow Iranian and current Black Mountain Institute City of Asylum Fellow Maryam Ala Amjadi. Learn how it was created and what that process meant for Ravanipour, both as a prolific writer and as a teacher.