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Arya Roshanian (he/him) is a fiction and non-fiction writer based in Brooklyn. His reporting, essays, and criticism appear in BOMB, 4Columns, Guernica, Vox, PAPER, Gawker, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. A graduate of University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Arya is a third-year MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University, where he was a finalist for the Henfield Prize.