Mina Odile is an Iranian-American writer, living in London. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Litro, Polyester, The Book Collector and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. In 2024, she collaborated with the political artist Peter Schumann on Mister Aeschylus’ The Persians, an adaptation of the Greek tragedy, published with Fomite Press; her short film, The Shatterer (2013), previously documented Schumann’s practice with the Bread and Puppet Theater. She has translated theatrical work from French to English – in 2022, her translation of Duck Parade, by Anne Terrail, was performed at New York’s Invisible Dog Art Center.
Born and raised in New York City, Mina first moved to the UK to study at the University of Oxford, where she completed a BA and Mst, specialising in early modern literature and 16th century epic poetry. As a student, she was a founding editor of the biweekly literary zine NOTES Oxford and was awarded runner-up and again short-listed for two ‘All Souls’ literary essay competitions, judged by guest panellists including Peter Stothard, Stephen Fry and Margaret Drabble, who singled out her work as ‘contrary, provocative and fun.’
Mina’s first novel, KLEPTO, explores issues of immigration through the lens of theft and ownership. It is currently on submission. She is currently working on her second novel, which collides the mystic world of the medieval anchoress with the chaos of COVID-stricken Manhattan.
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