Ladane Nasseri

Ladane Nasseri is a journalist and writer. A former Middle East correspondent for Bloomberg News where she led Iran’s news coverage, Ladane has reported for a decade and a half from Tehran, Dubai, and Beirut. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Businessweek, Newsweek, The Nation, The Telegraph (UK), and Liberation (France). In her role as a reporter, Ladane regularly commentated on Bloomberg TV and has moderated panels for the Atlantic Council and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an MFA in literary and narrative nonfiction from The New School in New York. Ladane was selected in 2021 as the Lit Fest Nonfiction Fellow For Emerging Writers at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Her writing has also received support from The New York State Summer Writers Institute. She has taught creative writing to students from underserved neighborhoods in New York City and is a certified yoga teacher and a Zen practitioner.