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Roya Amirsoleymani

Curator, Writer

I am writing/compiling a book about my best friend, our friendship of 15 years, his death from cancer in 2020 at age 36, and my experience of caregiving and grief. The work interweaves new essays about the year he was ill (that also flashback to earlier times) with ephemera from our personal archives spanning our early 20's up until my friend's death (notes, poems, journal entries, text messages, emails, lists, videos, photos, objects, etc.). Also included are excerpts from a decade and a half of hand-written letter correspondence between us.

Residency

#2 Red Room

Mar 2, 2025 – Mar 6, 2025

I spent my 4-5 days at Sou'wester focused on sorting and organizing ephemera and letters for the project and beginning to structure the composition and order for this element of the book. I also had a remote working session with my editor focused on two of the new essays and spent time on revisions to those pieces inde…