Reza Jalali is a writer, educator and a community activist who has taught at the Bangor Theological Seminary and the University of Southern Maine (USM) as an adjunct faculty. Jalali wrote the Foreword to New Mainers (Tilbury House Publishers, 2009), a book on immigrants? lives in Maine, and his children's book, Moon Watchers, received a Skipping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural Book. Jalali's short story collection, Homesick Mosque and Other Stories, was published in 2013. His play, The Poets and the Assassin, which is about women in Iran and Islam, was published in 2015. He coordinates the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at USM and advises students at Bowdoin College.