Black Mountain Institute’s City of Asylum — which allows persecuted writers to take refuge in an academic environment — has included three fellows from Iran, easily the most represented country in the program. The third of these fellows, Maryam Ala Amjadi, is a poet, translator, researcher, and journalist. So, we imagine she’s got a lot to say to UNLV professor and novelist Doug Unger during their conversation early this fall. Ala Amjadi will also read from her work, which has been translated in more than 10 languages. Come see why she’s so widely-published — and widely-revered.