Neda Toloui-Semnani

Neda Toloui-Semnani is an Emmy-award winning writer and producer. Currently a senior writer at the television news magazine, VICE News Tonight, her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Kinfolk, New York, LA Review of Books, The Baffler, The Week, BuzzFeed, and Roll Call among others. She’s been featured on The Rumpus and This American Life. She was named a 2018 fellow with the Logan Nonfiction Program and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA fellow in Nonfiction. She holds a masters of science in gender and social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a masters in fine arts in nonfiction from Goucher College. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and is based in Brooklyn where she lives with a small dog, a large cat, a fat baby, and a man she calls Stretch.