Katayoon Zandvakili's volume of poetry, Deer Table Legs, won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series prize in 1998; the book's title poem appeared in the Pushcart Prize XXIV (2000).

Her work has been featured in Lumina, caesura, Five Fingers Review, The Massachusetts Review, Hawai'i Review, and Rattapallax, as well as in the anthologies A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. 

 Katayoon Zandvakili was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in the Bay Area.