“Ferociously intelligent”
—New York Times Book Review

“A Stunning psychological thriller”
—Los Angeles Times

"A love story of the most fevered, brutal order.”
—Vulture

EXTINCTION

Lauren Groff selected Oloomi’s short story, originally published by Electric Literature, for The Best American Short Stories 2024.

Whose Time Are We Speaking In?

Oloomi's seminal craft essay on the works of Yiyun Li, James Baldwin, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha—writers whose complex treatment of time and intimacy offered her a dwelling place after losing her brother to suicide. 

A Harvard radcliffe Fellow

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow.

James Baldwin in Turkey

Written in celebration of Sedat Pakay's eleven minute documentary film of Baldwin filmed in Istanbul in May 1970, now streaming on the Criterion Channel. 

It Is What It Is

Min Jin Lee and Heidi Pitlor selected Oloomi's story, originally published by Electric Literature, for The Best American Short Stories 2023.