Pegah Ouji is an Iranian American writer who writes in Farsi and English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Joyland, Epiphany, Fugue, and Split Lip, among other publications. She has received scholarships from Kundiman, Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Literary Arts, GrubStreet, and the Shipman Agency. She was a 2024 Emerging Writer Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly. She is an editorial fellow at Roots. Wounds. Words. where she is working on an anthology of creative work by BIPOC justice-involved and impacted artists.
Pegah Ouji