My Writing

Fiction & Flash Fiction

“North of the Ruins” Malahat Review, Spring Issue #222

“Wild Horses” Necessary Fiction, http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/MehrAfarinKohanWildHorses

“My Mother’s Heart” The Los Angeles Review, https://losangelesreview.org/mothers-heart-mehr-afarin-kohan/

“Where I’m Supposed to Be” The Los Angeles Review, https://losangelesreview.org/supposed-to-be-mehr-afarin-kohan/

“The Hunter” The Missouri Review, 43.4 (Winter 2020): “True Confessions” (Print Only)

“Dirty Laundry” The Antigonish Review, Issue #203 (Winter 2020) (Print Only)

“The Border Town” The Citron Review, https://citronreview.com/2020/03/19/the-border-town/ (Appeared also in Best Small Fictions 2021)

“The Burial” The Belletrist Magazine, http://belletristmagazine.com/fiction/the-burial/

“The Birth of Venus” The Healing Muse, VOL 7(1) (2007) (Print Only)


Book Chapter

Mehr-Afarin Kohan (2021) On The State of “Speechlessness”: When Grief Cannot Speak in “Loss and grief: Stories of loss and their personal and clinical implications”, edited by Shoshanna Ringel. Routledge, Oxford, UK. (Print Only)


Articles

Mehr-Afarin Kohan (2023) A Few Small Nips, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33:4, 438-439, DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2023.2236523

Mehr-Afarin Kohan (2022) Politics of the Body in the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement in Iran: A Commentary, Psychotherapy and Politics International, VOL.20, NO. 4, 1–8, https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/psychotherapy-politics-international/article/view/69/57

Mehr-Afarin Kohan (2020) On the State of “Speechlessness”: When Analysts are Mis-Recognized by Their Patients, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 89:1, 143-152, DOI: 10.1080/00332828.2020.1688551

“InSight: the interplay of science and humanities”, CMAJ, June 11, 2013, 185(9)


Awards

2020 Best Small Fiction 2021 for “The Border Town”

2019 Nominated for Best of the Net anthology by Sundress Publications for “The Burial”

2016 Susanne Chassay Memorial Paper Award for “Historical Trauma: A window into changing the trauma discourse in rehabilitation of survivors of human rights violations”.


Interviews

2023 “What Remains of the Passage of Time: Joey Mauro in Conversation with Mehr-Afarin Kohan”, Appeared on The Malahat Review, Link To Interview