Khakpour has been a judge for, or served on the judging panels or committees for the Berlin Prize, PEN International, Asian American Writers' Workshop writing contests (including the Hyphen Magazine Short Story Contest), Canteen Magazine writing contests, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the Santa Fe Reporter’s 2010 annual writing contest.
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After receiving her MA, she was a Lecturer and an Eliot Coleman fellow at Johns Hopkins University.